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Quick Answer: The IRS can garnish your wages without a court order after sending a Final Notice of Intent to Levy (Letter 1058 or LT11). To stop it, you must request a Collection Due Process (CDP) hearing, enter a payment agreement, or qualify for Currently Not...

The Confusion Most taxpayers—and frankly many accountants—use these terms interchangeably. They shouldn’t. Penalty Abatement Reduces or removes penalties Applies to current balances Prevents future accrual Penalty Refund Returns money already paid Requires open...

Let’s Not Sugarcoat This There is a deadline. If you miss it, the IRS keeps your money. That’s the rule. What Money Are We Talking About? Penalty and interest payments that may have never been properly evaluated. We routinely see: Individuals with $5,000–$15,000 in...

The Reality Most Taxpayers Miss There’s money sitting with the IRS that doesn’t belong to them. Penalties. Interest. Charges could be reduced—or refunded. And the IRS won't call you to offer it back. If you don’t ask correctly, you don’t get it. What This Is (And What...

I am a CPA who works in tax resolution, and I am going to say something that many people in the industry won’t say out loud: Parts of the tax resolution industry are very predatory. Here is how it often works. A taxpayer gets scared — they receive an IRS letter, they...