Taxpayer Defense Services for Complex IRS Cases

Taxpayer defense means having a licensed representative stand between you and the IRS. We take on back taxes, audits, penalties, unfiled years, wage garnishments, bank levies, payment plans, and settlement offers. Before calling the IRS, we learn your records, the balance, your filing gaps, and how close collection is. Then we speak for you and push for the resolution that best fits the facts.

That's exactly what the license is for. Enrolled Agents are licensed by the U.S. Treasury with unlimited practice rights before the IRS, covering audits, collection cases, and appeals. Once you sign Form 2848, revenue agents and officers contact us, not you. We handle the calls and correspondence and prepare the financial statements and documents your case needs.

Keep every letter, especially the Final Notice of Intent to Levy and anything about your right to a hearing, since those come with firm deadlines. What happens next depends on where collection stands, how much is owed, whether your returns are filed, and what you can afford. We review it, contact the IRS, and go after a release, a payment arrangement, hardship status, or another fit.

Maybe, through an Offer in Compromise. The IRS looks at what it calls reasonable collection potential: your income, assets, allowable expenses, and future earning ability, along with your filing compliance. An offer only works if the documents prove the numbers, so we complete the financial analysis before deciding to file one.

It spreads an IRS balance over monthly payments. The IRS weighs what you owe, your filing record, your current finances, and the payment you propose. You'll have to keep filing and paying new taxes on time to keep it. We build the number around real household or business expenses so it doesn't fall apart three months in.

Sometimes. First Time Abate relief and reasonable cause relief are the two main paths, the second applying when something outside your control kept you from filing, paying, or depositing on time. The facts and paperwork carry the request. Relief isn't automatic, and interest on unpaid tax generally keeps running, but a well argued request can make a real difference.

Almost always. The IRS usually wants missing returns filed before it will approve a payment plan or an offer. Filing also replaces any substitute returns the IRS made on your behalf, which tend to overstate the tax. Since those returns shape the whole case, we prepare them carefully and think about how each one affects what you can pay.

Every IRS notice, your recent returns, transcripts if you have them, proof of income, bank statements, monthly expenses, and anything on assets or your business. For payroll cases, add Forms 941, payroll registers, and deposit records. Government contractors should include a current list of contracts and receivables, since those affect collection. Complete records let us confirm the balance, spot deadlines, and judge which options are real.