IRS Law Blog

For the last few years, we have had to pause our vacations and big trips due to COVID travel restrictions. Now, however, travel is coming back – we can take those cruises to the Bahamas, fly...

Although it is scary to imagine, you may find yourself face-to-face with an IRS Revenue Officer. They could be knocking at your front door, or even arrive unexpectedly to your place of employment. You might...

One day, you receive a letter in the mail appearing to be from the IRS. As you read the letter, you begin to sweat: it’s threatening to seize your property, garnish your wages, levy your...

If you receive an IRS letter CP40, rest easy.  You are no longer on the IRS’ radar. Instead, your case is now the responsibility of a private debt collector. The IRS letter CP40 reads:  “We...

IRS collection efforts are resuming from where they left off when COVID-19 first hit. The IRS has started sending their CP500 collection letters demanding payment. The IRS is making it clear that they are not...

All had been quiet on the IRS front. Then you received a stack of IRS mail, and gathered the courage to open it. And right there, in bold letters in the middle of the front...

The IRS loves to send letters telling you how much you owe, that they want to levy your wages, and demanding that you immediately contact them. It can seem like the IRS letter onslaught will...

You pick up the phone, and call the IRS Automated Collection Service, maybe with some questions, or just to try to resolve your account. Or you have a meeting with an IRS Revenue Officer, who...

A common fear is that an IRS agent may show up one day at your door, take your house, your wages, and your property. But if the IRS wants to get your attention on a...

You just received IRS Notice LT16, warning that your unpaid taxes have been assigned for immediate enforcement action. The letter gives you three options: (1) within 10 days, send a check to the IRS to...

My grandmother used to have saying about people, always telling me “It’s what inside that counts.” It was her way of telling young Howie to not to judge a book by its cover, that looks...

Owing the IRS is nerve-wracking enough without having to worry about losing your house to the tax man. But are your concerns about losing the roof over your head based on reality? Are you really...

If you money to the IRS, you have taxpayer rights. Your rights are in the the Internal Revenue Code, which has laws that limit the power of the IRS collection division to collect, levy and destroy....

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...

You were brave enough to pick-up and open your certified mail, and there it was – an IRS Final Notice of Intent to Levy. The law is intended to avoid surprises from the IRS and protect...

You just received a batch of IRS collection letters stating that your tax problem is “Urgent,” that the IRS might levy your wages, and, finally, that you should call the IRS immediately. You consider doing...

Will my IRS debt ever just go away?  Will there ever be a time that the IRS will just leave me alone? Yes, and yes. The collection of most every IRS debt eventually ends, and...