Griffin Levy | Detroit Tax Attorney | IRS Tax Resolution Lawyer

Metro Detroit Tax Lawyer

Griffin is the lead attorney in the Metro Detroit office, conveniently located in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and serving all of the Metro Detroit area.

Griffin earned his undergraduate degree at Wabash College, double majoring in Rhetoric and Theater, and received his law degree from Northern Kentucky Salmon P. Chase College of Law, where he focused on tax and business law. Since joining the firm, he has successfully represented clients before IRS Settlement Officers, Revenue Officers, and the United States Tax Court.

With extensive experience in federal tax litigation, Griffin has handled cases before the United States Tax Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. He regularly assists clients with IRS audits, collection enforcement, and complex tax controversies, including seven-figure liabilities, Trust Fund Recovery Penalties, and litigating federal tax liens.

Griffin has successfully secured installment agreements, offers in compromise, and currently non-collectible status for clients without requiring liquidation of assets such as homes, retirement accounts, or investments. He also helps taxpayers challenge improper IRS enforcement actions, including Notices of Determination, and has obtained favorable remands from the United States Tax Court, and won Summary Judgment Motions before the Federal Circuit Court.

Tax Problems We Handle

Griffin has extensive experience representing individuals and businesses in federal and state tax collection matters. He regularly assist taxpayer with IRS collection issues, tax controversies, audits, and tax litigation.

His practice includes:

• Resolution of IRS Tax Debts
• Resolution of IRS collection actions
• Negotiations with IRS Revenue Officer
• IRS audits
• Securing IRS installment agreements, both with and without financial disclosures
• Assistance with preparing financial disclosures to Revenue Officers (IRS Forms 433-A and 433-B)
• Preparing and filing Offers in Compromises
• Filing Collection Due Process appeals in response to IRS Final Notice of Intent to Levy
• Obtaining IRS hardship and currently not collectible status
• Assistance with IRS tax liens and levies
• Helping with IRS payroll tax issues, including the trust fund recovery penalty
• Litigation before the United States Tax Court and Michigan and Ohio Federal District Courts
• Representation before the Ohio and Michigan Tax Departments
• Preparation and filing of unfiled tax returns
• IRS penalty abatement and innocent spouse relief applications

Serving Detroit and Metro Detroit

Griffin represents individuals and businesses throughout Detroit and the surrounding Metro Detroit area. The firm’s Metro Detroit office is conveniently located in Farmington Hills, Michigan, allowing us to serve clients throughout Southeast Michigan.

We represent taxpayers throughout Wayne County, Oakland County, Macomb County, and Washtenaw County, including clients in Detroit, Farmington Hills, Southfield, Troy, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Royal Oak, Novi, Livonia, and surrounding communities.

Whether you are dealing with an IRS Revenue Officer, an unpaid tax liability, an IRS audit, a federal tax lien or levy, or another tax controversy. We are here to help you understand your options and determine an appropriate strategy for resolving the matter.

Our Metro Detroit office is located in Farmington Hills, Michigan:

Professional Highlights

• Successful negotiations with IRS Field Agents, Revenue Officers, and Settlement Officers to secure partial pay installment agreements, IRS currently non-collectible, and payment plans with the IRS. Clients were not required to liquidate assets including, house, retirement plans, cars, and stock portfolios.
• Obtaining IRS installment agreements without financial disclosures to the IRS.
• Represented tax-preparer alleged to have committed misconduct before the Department of Justice.
• Preparation of delinquent business and personal returns.
• Obtained favorable judgment before the Department of Justice in the Southern District of Ohio regarding Federal Tax Liens.
• Successful representation of clients under civil investigation of seven figure liabilities.
• Defended case before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Representation of small business under civil investigation regarding Trust Fund Recovery Penalty.
• Successful litigation in United States Tax Court regarding Settlement Officer abuse of discretion causing a remand back to appeals.
• Audit reconsideration and representation including audit appeals and litigation in United States Tax Court over audits.
• Assistance with real estate agents in closing houses with Federal Tax Lien, including removing tax liens.

Published Works

• Published in the Cincinnati Bar Journal. Article, Demystifying the IRS Collection Processes
• Continuing legal education speaker for MyLawPracticeCLE, “Inside IRS Collections: Myths, Rights, and Real Solutions.