It’s that time of the year again! Tax day is fast approaching and for those who like to procrastinate, this show is for you.
Like I did last year,  I will be appearing regularly on the Big Biz Show from now until tax day to dish the hottest and most pertinent tax help tips to consumers all across America. The Tax Resolution Tax Day Countdown is kicking off this upcoming Wednesday,
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Think America’s royal family – celebrities – receive special treatment for the IRS? Ask the many celebrities who landed in tax trouble in 2010.
Her name is Jaime Pressly.
She’s best known for her role in the TV show My Name Is Earl.
You’ve seen her. She’s the pretty blond in the show, Earl’s ex-wife with a southern accent so annoyingly shrill no polite southerner would keep her company.
Pressly is funny, to be
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Whether you are famous or not, owing back taxes is a serious offense that the IRS does not take lightly.  If you owe back taxes, and the IRS has filed a tax lien or levy against you, now is a good time to act on it.  A Certified Tax Resolution Specialist can help you sort through your back tax problems, including filing an IRS Collection Appeal to stop the tax
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I’d like to share with you TRS’s major accomplishments from 2010, from being honored as at the Inc 500|5000 Awards to endorsements from Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Being the nation’s leading tax relief firm, we are very proud to recount highlights from 2010 including the following:

Tax Resolution Services, Co. Honored at Inc 500|5000 Awards Ceremony in Washington, DC. TRS was recognized at the Inc. 500|5000 conference for its debut
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The Jan. 31 deadline for filing Form 1099s for independent contractors is around the corner. A major target on the IRS hit list is worker status.
Why would the IRS care how a business owner classifies workers? Because the tax burden on the owner changes dramatically depending on how a worker is classified. The IRS is on the lookout for worker misclassification—it doesn’t matter if it is deliberate or inadvertent—to capture
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As people look to improve their overall health and well being in the coming year by making better choices and smarter decisions, one of the best resolutions you can make involves exercising sound judgment when it comes to your financial fitness, especially if you owe back taxes or other tax debt.
Your New Year’s resolution should be to make an appointment with a qualified tax relief professional and settle, once and
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According to a government watchdog, the Internal Revenue Service is tormenting struggling taxpayers in the midst of a slow economic rebound by increasing the number of liens the agency has filed against people who owe back taxes.
As the Associated Press has reported, the IRS filed nearly 1.1 million tax liens in the 2010 budget year, up 14 percent from the previous year—and tax liens are automatically filed if the tax
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At Tax Resolution Services we help people who are struggling with back taxes on a daily basis.  Questions about how to settle back taxes are often asked of our Certified Tax Resolution Specialists.  If you are struggling with back tax debt, there are tax relief options available, as outlined below.Â
Question: There’s no way I can pay what the IRS says I owe. No way whatsoever! They say I owe the
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This is a good, logical question that many taxpayers have, understandably, asked before. The answer is a definitive ‘no’.
The IRS have had a considerable boost in their enforcement budget, allowing them to pursue all tax delinquencies, both personal and business finances. In many circumstances, the IRS is willing to accept less than the total amount owed by taxpayers, in order to bring them back into compliance. Usually these agreements are made with the help
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As a business owner, there are two types of workers you will deal with: employees and independent contractors. When it comes to tax and the IRS, the difference between the two is crucial.
For each employee, it is the business owner’s responsibility to withhold and pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, income taxes and pay unemployment taxes on wages paid. However, when employing an independent contractor, as a general rule, the
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Need more proof that the IRS is unrelenting when it comes to collecting unpaid back taxes? A recent article by the Associated Press reveals that “the IRS filed nearly 1.1 million liens in the budget year that ended in September, a 14 percent jump over the previous year.”
For those who are unfamiliar with tax liens, they are essentially punishments for taxpayers who have fallen behind on their taxes for years.
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Happy New Year!
By the time you read this, you’ll have rung in the New Year. So what about those New Year’s resolutions? Spending more time with loved ones? Working less? Getting in shape with a new gym membership?
Those are the standards, right? They’re good ones: We should all spend more time with loved ones, work less, and be in better shape.
But if you’re one of the thousands of U.S. taxpayers
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Happy New Year! Now that the festivities are out of the way, why not make your new year’s resolution to be tax debt free? If you owe back taxes, you are not alone! 1 in 6 taxpayers need help with their taxes. Start 2012 right by getting on the right track to tax resolution!
Check out this post with helpful tips on how to get organized and start resolving your back
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Earlier this month we mentioned that the IRS have over $164.6 million in undelivered refund checks and want to deliver them to the rightful taxpayers. 111,893 taxpayers who are owed a refund check this year never received it because of  simple mailing address errors. To solidify these almost too-good-to-be-true IRS news, Chris Knape from mlive.com reports that 2,297 of those taxpayers are Michigan residents and are owed $3 million in
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As 2010 is coming to a close, it is a wise move to start thinking about closing the tax year off right. At TRS we believe in taking action as early as possible, no matter what your tax debt situation is.  And we are not the only ones that think so! We were recently mentioned in The San Francisco Examiner under SF Small Business Examiner, A. Michelle Blakeley’s post: 23
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