Tax Debt Relief & Resolution Services

You may not need a tax attorney for this at all: for most IRS collection and audit matters, an Enrolled Agent can represent you directly, and if your situation ever calls for legal counsel, we will tell you so you can engage one. Enrolled Agents are licensed by the U.S. Treasury with unlimited practice rights before the IRS. That covers collections, audits, appeals, payment plans and settlement offers, which is where most tax debt cases are actually decided.

The main ones are an installment agreement, an Offer in Compromise, Currently Not Collectible status, penalty abatement and innocent spouse relief, plus specific steps to get a levy or garnishment released. Which one fits depends on whether your returns are filed, what you earn, what you have to spend each month, what you own, and how much you owe. We pull your IRS transcripts and look at the real numbers before recommending anything.

Sometimes. The IRS calculates what it calls your reasonable collection potential, roughly the equity in your assets plus what it could collect from your future income. If the debt is larger than that, an offer may make sense. It takes a lot of paperwork and the IRS rejects plenty of offers. We run the calculation with you first, and if another option is a better bet, we'll say so.

Call as soon as you see it. Once an Enrolled Agent has your Form 2848, we can contact the IRS directly, confirm the balance, get any missing returns filed, and propose an alternative such as an installment agreement or hardship status. The IRS generally releases a levy once an acceptable arrangement is in place. Bring the levy notice and your most recent pay stubs and bank statements.

If you don't file, the IRS may file for you using a substitute return, and those usually skip deductions and credits you're entitled to. The result is a bigger bill than you really owe. Most relief programs also require you to be caught up. So we prepare the missing returns, see how they change the balance, and fold that into the plan.

Often, yes. First Time Abate can remove certain penalties if your recent history is clean, and reasonable cause relief applies when illness, a disaster or something similar kept you from complying. Neither removes the tax itself, and most interest stays, but on an older balance the penalties can be a big share of the total.

A garnishment or levy release can happen within days once the IRS accepts an arrangement. A straightforward installment agreement can come together fairly quickly once returns are current. Offers in Compromise, audits and appeals take longer, often many months, because the IRS reviews detailed financial records and frequently asks for more. We'll give you a realistic sense of timing after the first review.

Yes, and we take these seriously because unpaid Form 941 taxes can follow owners and officers personally through the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty. We review each open quarter, get deposits and filings current, deal with the IRS and work out a resolution the business can sustain. Government contractors are a big part of our client base, and if cash flow caused the problem, our fractional CFO service can help keep it from happening again.