Information About IRS Wage Levies If the IRS levies (seizes) your wages, part of your wages will be sent to the IRS each pay period until: You make other arrangements to pay your overdue taxes, The amount of overdue taxes you owe is paid, or The levy is released. Part of your wages may be […]

To encourage prompt payment of withheld income and employment taxes, including social security taxes, railroad retirement taxes, or collected excise taxes, Congress passed a law that provides for the TFRP. These taxes are called trust fund taxes because you actually hold the employee’s money in trust until you make a federal tax deposit in that […]

Just about the most common problem self-employed people and partners make is failure to pay estimated tax payments.  It is hard enough being a small business, and rent is due or you have employees to pay.  But according to the IRS, you must pay them first. Taxes must be paid as you earn or receive […]

Many taxpayers have encountered individuals impersonating IRS officials – in person, over the telephone and via email. Don’t get scammed. We want you to understand how and when the IRS contacts taxpayers and help you determine whether a contact you may have received is truly from an IRS employee. The IRS initiates most contacts through […]

Now that tax season is over, audit season has arrived. Based on statistics released in the 2017 IRS Data Book, the audit rate for individual tax returns is the lowest it’s been since 2002. It’s currently 0.6 percent, or about one in every 160 returns. That rate amounted to 934,000 audited returns in 2017. But there […]

Your client wants to sell or buy valuable property, and you have patiently answered questions and jumped through all the hoops, but you know that if the seller cannot convey clear title after the contract is signed, all inspections completed and conditions met, there will be no deal.  You get the title commitment and realize […]

If your Collection Statute Expiration Date (CSED) is near, the IRS may act aggressively to get you to pay as much as possible before the deadline or agree to extend it.

Porterville, Calif.: Preparer Marie E. Sherrill, 56, has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of aiding the preparation of a false return. According to the plea agreement, Sherrill promoted a fraudulent investment program that promised the victims that their money would be put into “pooled investments” with the money of other […]