IRS News
Home Seizures
IRS
quietly begins seizing residences again.
A few signatures and you are on the street. An informal moratorium on seizures of residences with
equity ended without a whimper a few weeks ago.
Your home, if the IRS claims you owe money, is again
at risk. This
development, together with tougher bankruptcy laws will make
it difficult for many families who will once again choose
paying the IRS or feeding the family.
Glee at the IRS
Revenue
Officers are not so quietly celebrating the swing of the
pendulum away from the Kindler, Gentler IRS to the familiar
old kick butt tactics of seize now answer questions later.
If you owe them watch out.
Offer in Compromise
Procedures
are still inconsistent at the IRS from desk to desk and from
location to location. Several
offer centers have been closed and those folks sent back to
Collections to enforce filing and payment rules.
The centralized Offer Centers at Memphis and
Holtsville are still in crisis mode with a new
classification: Waiting
to wait. That’s
right, now there are two lines, the first one is just to get
in line.
Arizona still the worst
Worst
place to live if filing an offer in compromise. 18-36 month waits are common.
Rules unclear on ETA Offers
The
IRS still declines to set standards for Effective Tax
Administration (I have a really good reason I can’t pay
the IRS) offers in compromise.
Another rule with “Discretion” (the IRS synonym
for NO) in mind.
Remember
these things about the IRS.
Divorce rulings on who pays the IRS mean nothing
to the IRS.
They will almost always go after the one easiest to
find, and leave the other one alone!
Homestead Exemptions are ignored by the IRS.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking your state’s
homestead law will protect your home.
It will not.
Mission of the IRS is to get everyone to file.
Collection is second.
You cannot get a deal or reasonable consideration if
you have not filed.
The IRS does not care about you.
It is not your friend.
It is not fair and does not intend to be.
It is more political than you would like.
It stays away from controversy and those taxpayers in
a position to make a lot of noise.
The
IRS honestly does not care if you pay.
They want you to file, they want your account
disposed of, but could not care less if they get a dime from
you.
It is not a business, it is government agency.
IRS
employees, in the past, and possibly still are rewarded for
seizures and levies on taxpayers.
Do not trust them.
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