“We Can Lower Your Tax Debt by 50, 70 Even 90 Percent!!!”
Ads like this are highly misleading. I have many clients who go first to the hucksters pedaling such false promises, and then come to me when it’s clear they won’t get anything for the money they paid these creeps. Read more >>
An investor was trying to collect on a note, and called me to help him out: he and a bunch of strangers had loaned $600,000 to a fellow living in the outskirts of Cambria, California. The fellow Read more >>
February 25, 2019
The IRS treats taxpayers who owe more than $100,000 very differently than it does those who owe less than $100,000. If you owe more, the IRS expects immediate payment. It also uses harsh collection measures and makes invasive financial information demands. If you owe less, then you get up to five years to pay what you owe, and the process is relatively easy. Read more >>
October 9, 2018
Note: The case involved here is very complex. But that’s the point: it dominated and nearly ruined the lives of my clients for a decade, until I used bankruptcy law to end their nightmare. Read more >>
September 18, 2018
A client ran a landscape maintenance company in LA for 30 years. His crew showed up at clients’ houses to mow, blow, and go. My client called his crew “contractors,” to avoid paying payroll taxes. He also didn’t issue Forms 1099 for them. Uh-oh… Read more >>
August 9, 2018
A business owner sent me an email about her tax issues: she owes lots of money, the IRS has filed lien notices, she can’t make her payments. Read more >>
February 23, 2018
Americans who work overseas are entitled to exclude $80,000 of annual income from their tax return. It’s called the “foreign earned income exclusion.” Read more >>
January 19, 2018
The private collectors are not as well trained as IRS employees, and generally violate taxpayer rights much more often than the federal employees. Read more >>
May 30, 2017
My client’s shaking, horrified. She lied on her tax return and worries the IRS will find out when they open the audit. She thinks she’ll end up in handcuffs if she even talks to the IRS. She won’t. But the IRS will be happy that she is scared. Read more >>
May 26, 2017
Most people don’t know that the IRS stops trying to collect on tax debt after 10 years. This 10-year statute of limitations can be valuable to people who owe back taxes from several years ago. Read more >>
May 13, 2017
