Retired and on a fixed income, our client Carol and her husband ended up owing the IRS $18,000 after a bad real estate situation.  With no options, Carol started to do some research and discovered the great help Tax Resolution Services had done for others in her situation. Tax Resolution Services negotiated with the IRS and Carol and her husband’s IRS debt was reduced to $5300. To hear Carol’s personal
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“It felt like you were running with nowhere to run to.”
Our client Robert had a huge tax problem; he owed about $125,000 in back taxes to the IRS and with liens on his bank accounts he turned to Tax Resolution Services for help. The minute he walked in the door of Tax Resolution Services Michael Rozburch and our team immediately began the process of helping to solve Robert’s IRS problems.�
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Our client Bill was incredibly ill and racked up three years of failure to file his tax returns. All said and done, Bill owed the IRS $66,000 dollars in taxes, penalties and fines. With nowhere to run and no means to pay the full amount, Bill turned to Tax Resolution Services for help.  The Tax Resolution Services team was able to step in and help Bill to clear his debt
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Every month at Tax Resolution Services we choose a very special Tax Client Of The Month.  It’s our way of acknowledging good friends and saying “thanks” to those who supports our business with referrals, word of mouth and repeat business.
This month’s Tax Client Of The Month is Mr. Thomas H.
Mr. Thomas H. owed the IRS over $70K in back taxes when he sought our help.  After several months of negotiations,
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As an independent contractor, Sharon fell behind on her quarterly estimated taxes, resulting in penalties and back taxes totaling $93,000. When Sharon knew she would never be able to catch up she turned to Tax Resolution Services to help negotiate down her penalties, saving her around $70,000 dollars. You can listen to Sharon’s story below to hear how Tax Resolution Services helped her:
Tax Resolution Service Client Testimonial: Sharon

If you are
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As a self employed individual trying to make it, Sharon ran into huge IRS problems when she fell behind on her quarterly estimated tax payments. The penalties were horrific and in the end Sharon ended up owing around $93,000 dollars in back taxes and fines. That’s when Sharon decided to call Brian at Tax Resolution Services.  TRS stepped in to take over Sharon’s dealing with the IRS and we were
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John Joseph Bridge of Minnesota pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false return for his business, Fineline Lakeshore Inc. He admitted that he filed a false 2008 corporate tax return, specifically understating the amount of Fineline’s gross revenue by approximately $89,000. Bridge was one of three partners at Fineline and responsible for preparing the corporate tax return. He faces up to three years in prison.

A New Jersey criminal defense attorney who has not filed a personal income tax return since 2000 admitted to committing tax crimes in connection with income he received from his law practice.
Francis Cutruzzula, 48, of River Vale, N.J., pleaded guilty to two counts of tax evasion and one count of failure to file a tax return.
A 1988 graduate of Seton Hall Law School, Cutruzzula was admitted to practice law in
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A Shaker Heights, Ohio, pastor was charged with six counts of willful failure to collect and pay taxes.
A criminal information alleges that Charles J. Matthews, 58, failed to pay at least $90,676 in income and FICA taxes that were withheld from employees at Cleveland’s Mount Sinai Baptist Church and Ministries from October 2005 to January 2007.
Matthews was the senior pastor at Mt. Sinai and oversaw financial affairs of the church.
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A Flint, Mich., woman was sentenced to 33 month in prison for preparing and filing false income tax returns.
Following a five-day trial, Chandra Hicks was convicted of 37 counts of preparing and filing false tax returns. According to evidence presented at trial, Hicks operated a tax preparation service called Unlimited Prosperity Tax Service in Flint, Mich., from 2005 through 2009.
During that time period Hicks prepared 37 false tax returns by
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These are challenging financial times for many people. What makes this economic recession so unique is that it has gone on for so long and transcended so many income levels. In it’s wake, it has left an increasing number of consumers more financially vulnerable than ever before. These tax distressed individuals, fearful and often not sure what to do have avoided delinquent tax issues and are finding themselves on the
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An Anne Arundel County, Md., council member pleaded guilty to failing to file a federal income tax return.
Daryl D. Jones, 47, of Severn, Md., also admitted that he failed to file personal income tax returns for four years and quarterly business payroll tax returns for six years.
Jones operated a law office and a tavern. From 2002 to 2007, Jones knowingly failed to file four personal income tax returns. He also
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In less than a month after the voluntary offshore bank declaration amnesty deadline expired, the results are showing that tax collection efforts from once elusive off-shore account holders appears to be working. A recent Reuters News Article – America’s Rich Losing Tussle with Taxman dated September 30, revealed that since 2008, the IRS has been successful at cracking down on off-shore tax shelters and going after Swiss banks (initially) and
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Lakecia Motley, 32, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for tax fraud and ordered to pay $676,465.49 in restitution to the IRS. At Motley’s plea and sentencing hearings, the prosecutors proved that from 2005 to 2007, she and her co-conspirators filed numerous fraudulent tax returns using stolen identity information. The United States lost a total $676,465.49 from the false tax returns.

German A. Posada, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty to charges of filing a false 2004 individual income tax return and making a false statement in a bankruptcy proceeding.
Posada admitted to filing a false individual income tax return for 2004 that underreported the income from his business as a real estate agent in the Las Vegas area.
From 2003 to 2005, Posada earned commission income from International Realty and another agency.  He
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