IRS settlement options

May 21, 2013 | Innocent and Injured Spouse, Installment Agreements, IRS Debt Settlement, Non-collectable status, Offer in Compromise, Payroll tax problems, Penalty Abatement, Tax Debt Bankruptcy

Eight IRS settlement options that could save your skin

I think we’ll have to be honest here. Tax settlement companies have a pretty bad rap. The reason? Perhaps they don’t know exactly what they are doing, perhaps they are ethically challenged, and perhaps they prey on people emotions with fear-based marketing instead of empowering taxpayers with real information.

Well, in this article we will go over Eight IRS settlement options you have to negotiate your IRS tax debt based upon what you can pay and based upon if the IRS assessed your tax correctly.

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No matter which tax settlement option you chose, for the IRS to find favorably for you, you must package up your proposal nicely.

Innocent Spouse and the California Franchise Tax Board

April 24, 2013 | Innocent and Injured Spouse, Success Stories, Tax Attorney

Getting innocent spouse relief in California

BY: THOMAS S. GROTH, ESQ (@tsgESQ)

Working at IRSMedic World HQ can be taxing at times. (Pun absolutely intended). Many of my clients have seen their lives torn apart by the Internal Revenue Service, or a state taxing authority, and they’ve hired our firm because they know we have the tools and the expertise to make things right. Tax problems can cause a range of emotions, from indifference to extreme anger. I’ve seen a lot. I’ve seen tax problems that would make a grown man cry, I’ve seen the IRS take collection action that would spur a cookie-baking, gentle, 90-year-old grandmother into a fit of rage.

I’ve seen a lot. So I focus on solutions and try to work with my clients to think of things objectively, from a dollar and cents perspective. It’s not that simple though? is it? Sometimes a tax situation is just unfair.

Yet, sometimes, life is fair. It just my require some fancy lawyerin’

Injured Spouse Relief

April 18, 2012 | Innocent and Injured Spouse

Injured Spouse Relief

Injured Spouse relief is available for married taxpayer who wants to enjoy the benefits of filing a joint return without having to worry about having that benefit wiped out by their spouses’s pre-existing debts.

Tax Court rules no time limit on Innocent Spouse claim

May 10, 2011 | Innocent and Injured Spouse, IRS Debt Settlement

This is a huge win. Congratulations to University of Minnesota School of Law Professor Kathryn Sedo, attorney for taxpayer Suzanne Pullins, on a tremendous result. The Tax Court reversed a bad decision…a decision that should bother anyone who is concerned with administrative overreach and regulations that fly in the face of what Congress intended.