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The benefits of using Form 433F: Shorter, simpler disclosures to IRS collections

By Howard S. Levy, Esq., Automated Collection Service, Form 433A, Form 433B, IRS Financial Statements, Revenue Officers

If you owe the IRS money, chances are they are going to want a collection information statement from you to determine how they can be repaid. The IRS does not make completing the collection information statement easy on you. For starters, there are five different financial statements that the IRS collection division uses. How do you know which one is the right one to use? IRS Form 433F. If you are working with the IRS Automated Collection Service, you will likely be requested to use IRS Form 433F. IRS Form 433A. If a local IRS collections Revenue Officer has contacted you, he will ... Read More

Will the IRS request to change the amount of my installment agreement?

By Howard S. Levy, Esq., Automated Collection Service, Installment agreements, IRS Financial Statements, Statute of limitations on collections

You are finally on good terms with the IRS - you agreed to a monthly payment plan, and have been filing and paying your taxes on time, as you are required to do. With that, the IRS should leave you alone, right? Not necessarily. The IRS has the right to review an installment agreement, and to negotiate a new one to determine if your monthly payment could be changed. And when we say changed, we mean increased.Preview This will usually occur when your installment agreement payments are not enough to repay the IRS back in full. Let's say, for example, that you owe the IRS ... Read More

Getting the IRS to release a levy when your tax returns are unfiled

By Howard S. Levy, Esq., Automated Collection Service, Economic hardship and the IRS, IRS Appeals, IRS Financial Statements, Tax Court, Unfiled returns

When the IRS levies your wages or accounts, it is usually to get your attention. There is something the IRS wants that you have not provided - it could be a financial statement, estimated tax payments, or getting in compliance on unfiled tax returns. And to get the levy released, the IRS is usually going to condition it on, say, getting your unfiled tax returns in first. The IRS tells you that they operate on a "compliance first, levy release second" basis. But what if you cannot get the unfiled tax returns prepared quickly enough to get the levy released when you need it, which is ... Read More

IRS Taxpayer Advocate: An ally on the inside

By Howard S. Levy, Esq., Automated Collection Service, IRS Collection Problems, IRS levies and property seizures, Revenue Officers, Unfiled returns

When all of your efforts at resolution with the IRS have failed, and your frustrations have reached a boiling point, intervention from the IRS Taxpayer Advocate can help. The IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service is just that - an independent operation inside the IRS charged with solving taxpayer problems and advocating on their behalf to the IRS. When your IRS situation is dire, when everything else has failed, when the IRS is not responding or listening, or are not following their own guidelines or legal procedures - that is the time to bring in the IRS Taxpayer Advocate. In other words, ... Read More

Responding to an IRS Final Notice of Intent to Levy: Completing Form 12153

By Howard S. Levy, Esq., Appeals - collection actions, Automated Collection Service, IRS collection notices, IRS levies and property seizures

A certified mail slip comes in the mail, with a notation a letter awaits from you from the IRS, likely from the IRS Automated Collection Service. Or maybe an IRS Revenue Officer makes an unannounced visit to your home or work, and after introductions, hands a letter to you. This, you tell yourself, is serious. You get the letter and open it, and find that you have been served with an IRS Final Notice Notice of Intent to Levy, identified in the upper-right hand corner as LT11. Intimidating as it all may seem, you have the right to put the brakes on the IRS's desire to levy your ... Read More