Are you a small business owner or an independent contractor? If yes, did you know that the IRS is stepping up their enforcement just so that they can go after taxpayers like you more aggressively? The IRS assigns a higher priority to the collection of payroll taxes than personal income taxes.
Don’t let the anxiety of a potential IRS audit keep you up at night. Let us take the stress off
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Our friend, lawyer and nationally recognized radio host, Bill Handel doesn’t mess with two people – the IRS and his wife! He admits he’d rather have his wife come after him than the IRS. If you owe back taxes, you wouldn’t want to take your chances with the IRS! Check out the video below, where Bill offers excellent tax advice to thousands of listeners on his radio show Handel on
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Tax Resolution Services, Co. has been endorsed by well-respected public figures such as Bill Handel for a while now. Bill, a nationally respected attorney and talk show host, offers expert legal advice for common legal problems in an easy to understand way on his talk show Handel on the Law. We have featured Bill several times on our blog and have collaborated to help educate taxpayers on their tax resolution
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I got an interesting email recently regarding the new health care law (see below for full email message) . The email FALSELY claims that the new legislation would require workers to pay income tax on the value of employer-provided health insurance. This is simply not the case.
It’s true that the value of employer-paid health insurance will be added to employees’ W-2 forms for information purposes, however, contrary to this
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After the deal almost fell apart, the Swiss parliament and Swiss bank UBS agree to provide data to the IRS, finally collapsing the world’s most famous tax shelter.
With an historic deal on the brink of collapse, the Swiss parliament has approved the release of banking data to the Internal Revenue Service.
The deal, brokered in the wake of a Department of Justice investigation of Swiss banking giant UBS, pierces the Swiss
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Join me and KFI radio host, Bill Handel, this Saturday, June 5 at Whittier Law School for tips on IRS tax relief and tons of other free legal advice.
What: Law Day 2010
When: Saturday, June 5—9AM to 2PM
Where: Whittier Law School, 3333 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa, CA
This FREE event is open to the public and features legal advice from more than 100 lawyers in all areas
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With the IRS enforcement budget reaching a record $5.5 billion, more Americans than ever will need to know their options for income tax relief and IRS help to resolve IRS problems and avoid financially debilitating penalties and levies. If you owe back taxes or have several years of unfiled tax returns, here are a few tips to help you get the IRS tax relief you need.
You can run, but you
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April 15th, tax day, has passed and if you have not filed your tax return, it’s not too late to do a delinquent tax return, also known as late tax filing, today!  Our team of Certified Tax Resolution Specialists advise you to file your delinquent tax return the sooner, the better.  Five reasons to file a delinquent tax return:  you can go to jail for not filing a tax return, you
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Did you manage to file your taxes by the deadline? Perhaps you squeezed in your returns at the last minute? According to MarketWatch.com filling has gone down by 3% in the first week of April compared to that time last year.  This means that less people are filing legally required tax returns due to the current economy. Because more people than ever are struggling to pay their taxes, they will
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I recently provided advice about how to successfully file tax returns and avoid potential IRS back taxes during my interview on the Big Biz Show. I discussed the penalties of filing late returns and urged people to seek extensions the proper way in order to avoid failure to file penalties such as fines up to $25,000 per year and/or sentences of one year in prison per each un-filed year.  Due
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With the April 15th tax filing deadline already passed, what can you do if you’re one of thousands of taxpayers who just don’t have the cash to pay Uncle Sam?
The good news is, there are still IRS tax relief options for you if you did not pay two weeks ago. According to a  MarketWatch article, your best bet is to still file your tax return even if you don’t have
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Under the new health care mandate, the IRS has authority to withhold a portion of your federal tax return if you can’t demonstrate that you have health insurance coverage. Even though the IRS says they won’t audit you, your tax returns will be under greater scrutiny in the coming years. Increased IRS enforcement is a certainty, and now is the time to take action and get it right.

This latest news goes to show how no one is safe from IRS scrutiny-not even its own employees.
One IRS employee was found guilty of deliberately under-reporting her actual income by neglecting to disclose the money she made from selling her used clothing and other merchandise on eBay.
According to WebCPA, “She had unreported income of $15,320 in 2004 and $21,062 in 2005. Between 2000 and 2005, she was involved in over
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Every year, millions of taxpayers fail to file legally required tax returns by the April 15th deadline, and this year that number is expected to rise due to the economic recession and the dramatic increase in unemployment.
If you have unfiled tax returns it is always better to file them — whether they’re a couple days or a couple years late — than to not file them at all. Filing any
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Make no mistake about it, the IRS is serious about getting your tax return. Filing your tax return every year is not a voluntary act–and you had better file your own than let the IRS do it for you.
According to NYTimes, through mid-March, the IRS reportedly received 68.7 million returns, 3 percent fewer than at the same time in 2009.
In this economy, many Americans may opt to not file because
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