If you owe the IRS back
taxes, you may have already experienced an IRS levy, IRS wage
garnishment, seizure, or suffered from the filing of an IRS tax lien.
In that case, your immediate objective is to get relief from the IRS
levy or IRS wage garnishment. Your long term plan may involve an Offer
in Compromise, installment agreement, innocent spouse relief, or other
tax resolution. As an experienced tax attorney, I work with
taxpayers and the IRS to arrive at solutions so that you can get your
life back. The IRS levy relief consultation is free.
A copy of the IRS
Internal Revenue Manual Provisions concerning IRS levy on wages, salary
and other income are here.
The IRS is asking depositaries (banks, credit unions,
savings and loans, and similar institutions) to review and understand
the responsibilities associated with processing
levies.
Put over
35 years of
IRS levy relief experience on your side. Pick up the phone and call me to discuss your IRS levy or other
IRS problem. Reading on the internet about an IRS levy is one
thing, but when you need help NOW, you need someone experienced in
trench warfare with the seizure arm of the IRS. You need a
solution for your wage garnishment or bank levy. The call is free.
Read about how IRS Levy
practice harms Taxpayers who are experiencing Economic Hardship - See
National
Taxpayer Advocate's FY 2011 Objectives Report to Congress, (go to page
18 of report) Copy of Report is at
TaxSOS.com. Enter with this
link to see portion
dealing with IRS levy. As discussed in the Advocates report, for
the IRS to proceed with an IRS levy where there is economic hardship is
not only an abuse of discretion (CDP hearing), but is wrong as a matter
of law, even if the taxpayer hadn't filed all required tax
returns. See related tax court case concerning IRS levy and
economic hardship Kathleen
A. Vinatieri
The Internal Revenue Code authorizes
the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to collect taxes
by levy upon a taxpayer’s property or rights to property
if the taxpayer neglects or refuses to pay the tax within
10 days after receiving a notice and demand to pay the
tax. The IRS can levy a taxpayer’s salary and wages, bank
accounts, or other money that is owed to the taxpayer. An
IRS levy on your bank account or an IRS wage garnishment can result in
economic hardship. It can render you unable to pay critical business and
personal expenses.
These type of seizure actions are very easy for the IRS to accomplish. The
IRS wanted your attention, and now they have it. Of course, the
consequences upon you and your family are immediate, and
many times devastating. My law practice is devoted to IRS
tax collection matters. An IRS levy or garnishment is an urgent
matter.
IRS levy and IRS Wage Garnishment War Room - Stories of the American
Taxpayer along with actual case studies (below).
You Need Professional Help:
The frustration and devastation which Americans feel when hit by an
IRS levy, Wage garnishment, Wage levy, Pay levy or IRS Tax Levy, by
whatever name you call it in your panicked response, is very real - and
you are not alone. Unless you have been subjected to such economic and
savage personal attack, you probably can’t begin to relate. The checks
you wrote are bouncing, bank charges are mounting and your family needs
food. The housing needs to be paid and the utility company is
threatening to shut off your electric power. The IRS levy or Wage
Garnishment is causing additional damage.
You previously put off responding to the prior notices from the IRS -
rationalizing that you will get to it "later". Well,
"later" has come. You call the IRS and they want your name,
social security number and bank account information. You explain that
they already have it because the IRS levy just cleaned out your entire bank
account. Or, they ask "where do you work". Again, they have
the information because your pay check has been nailed by the IRS
garnishment. The IRS
continues to ask you an onslaught of questions about your financial
situation (e.g., your rent amount, your utilities, where you work, where
your spouse works, etc...). You begin to feel that the IRS person is
merely regurgitating questions to you and is robotically typing your
information into a computer system. You wonder - are they even thinking?
But, you need the IRS levy release or wage garnishment release. The scary reality is that in many cases
the IRS employee is just keypunching and
are waiting for the computer to give them an answer. Moreover, many
times they aren’t even entering your data correctly. Your "sixth
sense" tells you that something isn’t right. But you continue on.
You answer the questions without preparation and review of your actual
information and the law. You feel that being cooperative will help you
get the IRS levy release or Wage garnishment release.
What have you done to yourself? In reality, you have provided the
IRS with a roadmap to assets and income sources for future IRS levy and
IRS seizure action. Further, without proper factual review and legal
analysis before calling, you were not prepared, and have not taken into
account all of your necessary living expenses and legal provisions. The
result, the IRS employee advises you that you must pay a certain amount
per month which you actually can’t afford. You agree to the number out
of desperation to merely get some relief from the IRS levy or Wage
garnishment. For the moment, however, your are glad to get the IRS
off of your back.
What has the IRS done to you? The IRS has set you up to fail. The
problem: your "agreement" wasn’t based upon economic reality
and most probably doesn’t involve a long term plan of action to
resolve your tax problem. You struggle through the year. When the due
date comes for the tax return, you file your tax return with a balance
due and can’t pay. You again delay proper response. You don’t know
what to do and are paralyzed.. You default your agreement and the IRS
again issues another IRS levy or Wage garnishment. Now when you call, the IRS
condescendingly states - "you had an agreement before and didn’t
live up to it". Now, the IRS refuses to release the IRS levy or
Wage garnishment.
Read about some actual IRS levy/ IRS Wage Garnishment case studies
(see if this sounds like you).
- Some IRS employees
should be unemployed.
For
immediate levy and garnishment release help click here.
In most cases, TaxSOS.com can obtain your IRS levy release, IRS wage
levy release or IRS wage garnishment release within 1 to 3 days.
The skills of an experienced tax attorney are essential.
If you desire assistance,
contact TaxSOS.com to
resolve your IRS levy or IRS wage garnishment problem. Call for a free consultation: 1-866-482-9707.
Click here
for a free IRS Levy or IRS Wage Garnishment consultation using the
TaxSOS.com internet form.
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to learn about the TaxSOS.com Wage Levy Release Guarantee.
More Information about IRS Levy / IRS Wage Garnishment :
1.
Due
Process in IRS Collection Actions IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 - Collection Due
Process (Explanation in Report)
Final
Regulations
26 CFR
301.6320 - Notice
and Opportunity for Hearing upon Filing of Notice of Lien
26 CFR
301.6330 - Notice
and Opportunity for Hearing before Levy
2.
Release
of Levy - uncollectible, significant hardship
3.
IRS Pre-Seizure and Sale Considerations (restrictions, approval
process, prohibitions etc...).
4.
Social
Security Benefits subject to Levy
5.
IRS
Levy on Principal Residence - Final Regulations March 28, 2005
- IRS
Office of Chief Counsel - Change in Pre-Review Requirements for Suit Letters
Requesting
Judicial Approval of Principal
Residence Seizures (May 19, 2005) PDF File
Above limited
information is intended for informational purposes only. If legal
advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a
competent professional should be sought, and this general information
should not be relied upon without such professional assistance.
When the IRS
wants you ... you want TaxSOS.com
For
assistance contact A. Nathan Zeliff, Attorney at Law
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