Focused Boutique Tax Law Firm Support

We're a small practice by design. Instead of offering a little of everything, we concentrate on IRS problems (debt, audits, penalties, missing returns, levies) and on the accounting side of federal government contracting. The founder is an IRS Enrolled Agent and works every case personally. Plenty of people go looking for a tax attorney rather than an Enrolled Agent, yet for most IRS collection and audit matters an EA can represent you directly, and if your case ever needs legal counsel we'll say so plainly so you can engage one separately.

Yes. Enrolled Agents are licensed by the U.S. Treasury with unlimited practice rights before the IRS, in every state. With a signed Form 2848 on file, the founder can handle audits, collection cases, payment negotiations, penalty abatement requests and appeals for you. The IRS deals with your representative, not you.

Sometimes. First Time Abate relief can wipe out failure to file and failure to pay penalties for one year if your prior three years were clean. Reasonable cause relief needs a real explanation, such as illness, a fire or flood, or records you truly couldn't get. The penalty type and your paper trail drive the outcome, so we review both before writing anything.

Move fast. A bank levy freezes the funds for 21 days before they're sent to the IRS, and a wage levy keeps taking a slice of every paycheck until it's released. Keep every notice, write down the dates, and pull together your current income and expenses. We contact the IRS, confirm what's owed, and push for a release tied to a payment plan, hardship status or another workable fix.

Some people can. An Offer in Compromise is judged on what the IRS calls reasonable collection potential: your equity in assets plus what you could pay from future income. If that number is well below the balance, an offer may make sense. If it isn't, the IRS will reject it and months are lost. We run that math first, then prepare the Form 656 package and stay with it until the IRS decides.

Get them filed, and do it carefully. A substitute return prepared by the IRS skips deductions and expenses you could claim, so the bill it produces is usually too high. Being current on filings is also a condition for nearly every payment plan or settlement. We prepare the overdue years and line them up with the rest of your resolution plan.

You pay down the balance monthly instead of all at once. Smaller balances can often qualify for a streamlined installment agreement without a full financial statement; larger ones usually need Form 433 disclosures. Interest keeps running, so we look for a payment you can sustain without dragging the debt out longer than necessary.

Yes, it can happen. Withheld income tax and the employee share of Social Security and Medicare are trust fund taxes, and the IRS can assess the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty personally against owners, officers or anyone who had authority to pay them and didn't. We review the Form 941 history, the missed deposits and who signed the checks, then build a plan for the business balance and any personal exposure.