Like all scams out there, if it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t true. There are many tax scams making extraordinary claims like clearing your IRS back taxes in full. While tax help is available, make sure you investigate and ensure it is the kind of help you need. For help with seeking out the tax help you need, check out our tax attorney services.
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If you are receiving calls and mail from the IRS, the last thing you want to do is ignore them! IRS problems grow with time and will only get worse. Don’t let penalties and interest add onto the debt you owe. Start tackling your IRS problems now by acknowledging your tax problems and taking action to resolve them.
If you owe back taxes to the IRS take the first step in clearing
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IRS wage garnishments are very serious. They can be financially disabling to taxpayers and consumers. If you have a wage garnishment, it will stay in place until the IRS is fully paid all money owed or until they agree to release or amend the garnishment.
For more information on wage garnishments and how you can get help, read our IRS Wage Garnishments FAQs.
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I contributed to a recent article written by Tax Analysts Document Service regarding the unscrupulous practices of some tax negotiation-resolution firms (the article was called Tax Debt Representation Industry Continues to Operate in the Shadows).  I talked about the reality that some tax resolution firms  have negatively affected not only vulnerable taxpayers but also damaged the reputation of the viable tax debt representation industry and set the Federal Trade Commission
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The IRS announced yesterday new tax relief guidelines for a provision that allow small businesses the ability to claim a cell phone provided to employees by said business as tax-free without any arduous record keeping needed. The notice issued explains how the provision works in regards to employer purchased cell phones for employee use. It also goes on to explain that the IRS will not require the employer to provide
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A 60-year-old general contractor in Tijeras, N.M., received the harshest sentence possible for filing a false tax return — three years in prison.
Robert A. Fout admitted that he concealed from the IRS income he made from his contracting work. Fout admitted he did not report $16,754 in income in 2005, $66,961 in 2006, $32,604 in 2007, and $322,195 in 2008.
As part of his plea agreement, Fout agreed to pay $153,416
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One week filing extensions have been granted to taxpayers whose tax preparers have been affected by Hurricane Irene. The extensions granted by the IRS will give tax payers and their preparers some much needed tax relief after the disaster.
Returns normally due by September 15 will be granted extension until September 22, 2011. This relief is available to taxpayers regardless of their location but does not apply to any tax payment
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The IRS announced on September 1, 2011 that it will be providing tax relief to victims of the recent Hurricane Irene disaster. The tax relief provides tax-filing and payment deadline extensions to those who were affected by the hurricane. Included in the tax relief are corporations and businesses with a September 15 deadline for 2010 returns and those with estimated tax payment due dates. The extension will be granted until
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Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
If you’ve taken the first step in resolving your unsettled back taxes you have admitted you have a tax problem and need tax help. But where to go for help? There are many firms and individuals claiming to resolve your tax problems forever. However, you need to make sure any tax assistance you seek is relevant to your individual tax problem.
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Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
Once you file your yearly tax return, you might be tempted to get rid of all the receipts, forms, calculations and documentation lying around on your living room floor or home office. However, it is important you keep your tax documents for each tax return for at least 7 years. Copies of your tax return should be kept indefinitely.
Your tax returns do not disappear once you file them.
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U.S Tax Court is keeping tabs on every possible tax detail in the hopes to find some extra revenue and tax loopholes are being sought out to try to find funding to fill in the budget deficit. Not free from the examination are clergy members and the tax relief laws that protect them from paying taxes. Back in March the U.S. Tax Court made a surprising ruling to extend a
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The IRS newsletter Ten Tips for Taxpayers Who Owe Back Taxes or Have Other Tax Debt published a few weeks back, alerted Americans seeking tax debt relief there are ten options available to pay off their outstanding tax debt. These new IRS programs and policies are an effort to get delinquent taxpayers to avoid additional fines penalties or tax liens by making easy payment methods available such as a
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A former Shively, Kentucky, police officer was sentenced to 39 months in prison and three years of supervised release after being found guilty by a federal jury of multiple counts of tax fraud and lying to the IRS.
Following a three-week trial, the jury found Curtis Gordon Jr., 40, of Louisville, Kentucky, guilty of three counts of filing false federal income tax returns, three counts of failure to file federal income
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The Joint Tax Committee recently released their list of Estimates of Federal Tax Expenditures for Fiscal Years 2009-2013. The Joint Committee on Taxation is a nonpartisan committee of the United States Congress who assists Members of the majority and minority parties in both houses of Congress on tax legislation (see the website here). In Congress tax expenditures are what we like to call tax breaks or deductions;  the tax rules
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With the nations budget deficit increasing and negotiations over what to do about the debt ceiling still raging on, taxpayers should be looking out for changes in “relief providing” tax breaks in upcoming years. Currently the tax breaks that most tax payers rely on for tax relief could be at risk of being cut from the books.  Laura Saunders of the Wall Street Journal explores the future of your tax
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