Tax Debt / Collection, Installment Agreements, Offers in Compromise

When the IRS or any state government has already assessed a tax against you, the IRS can employ various methods to collect that debt (euphemistically called “enforced collection”). The IRS’s “enforced collection” methods often involve recording tax liens, levying bank accounts, seizing your business or personal assets including your home or other real estate; plus recording “nominee liens” on assets owned by other people. In some cases, your passport could be in jeopardy.

Once the IRS or a state taxing authority has assessed a tax, the assessed tax becomes a debt. Then, the fight with the government starts to collect that debt. Sanger & Molever have the experience and skill to resolve your tax debt and reach an appropriate resolution that makes economic sense and avoids IRS levies. The resolution maybe an Offer in Compromise, or an installment payment agreement. If tax liens and levies are making your life miserable, contact Palm Desert tax debt and collection lawyers Sanger & Molever to help you negotiate possible IRS resolution that might allow you to sleep at night.

A taxpayer with unpaid taxes that ostrich-like disregards the IRS collection notices, invites IRS levies of bank accounts. IRS bank levies raise the specter that the taxpayer’s checks to pay monthly rent, to pay the monthly mortgage, to pay monthly utility bills, to pay monthly credit card monthly bills, will bounce; returned NSF. Not good for the taxpayer’s credit rating. Or the taxpayer’s reputation.

Sanger & Molever can help you deal with IRS levies and IRS tax liens, and hopefully avoid your rent, mortgage, utility, and credit card checks bouncing. The Sanger & Molever firm can attempt to avoid the levies and bounced check, by attempting to negotiate with the IRS an installment payment agreement, or an Offer In Compromise, and perhaps getting some penalties abated.

Example: You owe the IRS $100X. The Revenue Officer assigned to collect the $100X states you must pay $8X monthly. The $8X reflects the difference between

1. your monthly income, minus
2. the IRS tables of allowed monthly expenses.

However, based on your actual monthly expenses, you can only pay $5X/month. The Revenue Officer demands you remit $8X monthly, or he will levy your bank accounts, your social security, your salary, and your right testicle. With Sanger & Molever’s experience in dealing with enforced collection, and our knowledge of the Internal Revenue Manual (“IRM”) that governs Revenue Officers, Sanger & Molever can very likely secure you a one year reprieve and obtain a written installment agreement for $5X monthly … the amount you can actually afford given your actual monthly expenses.

Do not believe the TV ads that claim (a) unpaid IRS taxes can be easily settled for ten cents on the dollar, or (b) that the ad’s sponsor can convert your tax debt into a refund.