Last year I wrote an article titled, “The E-Commerce Conundrum: Taxing Virtual Businesses and Their Investors and the Law”, to point out potential IRS tax problems facing e-commerce businesses. I did this because state lawmakers were introducing legislation that forced them to collect and pay state taxes. Fast-forward to today and it looks like online businesses may in fact be mandated to do just that.
A Web Pro News article titled,
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Last month Eva Rosenberg, the TaxMama® and I led a free Webcast by CPE Link for Tax Practitioners focusing on the topic of Collection Issues. As part of the Team TaxMama Faculty I’m excited to be back with Eva Rosenberg teaching this Wednesday, June 6th from 9-11am for another Live Webcast as part of the IRS Practice Series.
In this week’s Live Webcast, “6 Simple Steps to an Offer-in-Compromise: Completing Form 656”
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“How the U.S. wound up with the income tax is the story of two wars, a Supreme Court justice on his death bed, and Donald Duck” begins an article from NPR’s Planet Money Team entitled From Abe Lincoln to Donald Duck, the Story of the Income Tax. This interesting article illuminates the obstacles income taxes faced so that ultimately every citizen was responsible to pay their share to help the
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Tax Resolution Services offers affordable solutions to businesses and individuals who find themselves in tax troubles.  If you owe back taxes, need help to file a delinquent tax return, or have been threatened by a tax lien, our team of tax professionals can help you.  However, if you’ve deliberately evaded taxes and are looking to get a pass from prison, you are on your own, like the person in the
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Owe the IRS back taxes?  Whether you are a celebrity owing millions or a citizen owing thousands, the key to settling back taxes once and for all is to seek help from a tax professional.  Even Sharon Osbourne, wife of famous rock star Ozzy, admitted that upon hearing there was a tax lien on her house, she enlisted professional help for her back taxes owed.  Smart woman!
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, the rock star couple-turned-reality TV
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Yes!  If you decide, without prompting from the IRS, that you want to settle back taxes, you will most likely avoid prison.  The first step to settling back taxes is to contact a tax professional.  At Tax Resolution Services, we can help you get tax relief and set up a reasonable IRS payment plan or negotiate an Offer in Compromise settlement where you may end up paying pennies on the
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Tax cheats, beware!  The IRS is watching you – I can’t tell you how, when or where, but the IRS can see you!  I’ve blogged about people evading taxes before – in fact the article below was an example of how the IRS is ramping up prosecutions of tax cheats – and I will blog about it again to let you know that we, a group of tax professionals and tax attorneys at Tax
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No need to wait until the IRS comes knocking at your door and you find a tax lien filed against you to settle your back taxes.  You have a right to file your original tax return, no matter how late it is (also known as delinquent tax filing).   And if you owe more than $10,000 in taxes, like this real estate agent from Arizona did, I highly recommend having our tax professional team
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Whether you’d like to avoid the IRS, contact the IRS, settle with the IRS or just want to refer a friend, relative or client, Tax Resolution Services would love to hear from you.  Tax day – April 15th – is just around the corner and if you have issues with the IRS that you’d like to have ironed out, once and for all, it is time to pick up the
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I believe that some people evade taxes because they fear that the taxes, or back taxes, they owe will be more than they can handle.   As I’ve blogged about tax evasion over and over again, one can only get away with tax evasion for so long and eventually the IRS will catch up to you.  Then you are looking at prison time and a hefty fine.  Don’t be afraid of taxes.
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When tax problems arise in a family, it could end the marriage.  Sometimes, the spouse is truly innocent of their partner’s tax problems and the IRS realizes that this may be the case.  There is such a thing as Innocent Spouse Tax Relief and the IRS has a series of questions and Innocent Spouse Tax Relief Rules to extricate the innocent person from being responsible for the tax problem.   If
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