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Wishing it Would All Go Away Doesn't Work With the IRS

Remember the Calgon commercials of the 1970s and 1980s? Those of you who were around that is… A harried woman juggling kids, housework, jobs, and life, in general, gets fed up and utters the magic…


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Can My Business be Seized for Back Taxes?

Can My Business Be Seized For Back Taxes? An IRS or state business seizure. It was an otherwise uneventful Monday morning in Topeka, Kansas, when local restaurant Annie’s Place was seized by the…


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Now What? I Got a CP19 Notice from the IRS. Help!

You’ve opened that ominous IRS envelope and found that you have a notice. In the upper right-hand corner of the first page, it identifies itself as a CP19 notice. What is a CP19 Notice? A CP19…


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5 Gnarliest Tax Situations & How to Tame the Beast

Most people who were out of grade school in the 1980s remember hearing the word “gnarly.” While not an easy term to explain, the Urban Dictionary gives it a good shot: “Gnarly is when you’ve gone…


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I'm Innocent, I Tell You. I Didn't Do It. Having a Tax Debt that Isn't Yours

There are many things people rarely think of when they walk down the aisle. Marrying into another person’s tax debt can be one of them. You marry for better or worse, richer or poorer… tax debt or…


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Traveling Overseas? Not if You Owe Back Taxes

Summer is prime time for Americans to travel internationally. From May through September 2017, over 1.6 million U.S. citizens per month traveled outside the country. A good percentage of these…


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Now What? I Got a CP90 Notice from the IRS. Help!

Think of the CP90 notice as a big red flag. If you are receiving one from the IRS, this is your last chance. The CP90 notifies you of the IRS’ intention to garnish your wages, levy your property, or…


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How Do You Get the IRS Off Your Back, Temporarily? What Stops the IRS from Collecting?

There are statutes of limitations on IRS collection activity. Of course, if you deliberately file a false tax return to evade paying the correct tax, all bets are off. The IRS can attempt to collect…


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Coming for Your Money: What the IRS Can (and Can't) Do to Collect a Tax Debt

As you will see, the IRS has a lot of power to collect a federal tax debt. As far-reaching and mighty as those powers may seem, they are not unlimited. What the IRS Can’t Do The IRS Can’t Put You in…