What you are dealing with
A balance can grow quietly across several years until the letters blur together and the account becomes hard to read. The useful starting point is not a promise about what the balance might become. It is a current, year-by-year picture of returns filed, tax assessed, payments credited, penalties, interest, and collection status.
What the IRS is doing
The IRS generally moves from a bill through reminder notices and, if the account stays unresolved, into enforced collection. Filing compliance matters because most payment and resolution programs require all required returns to be filed before the IRS will approve an arrangement.
What we do
We read the account as your federal representation firewall. We reconcile transcripts and notices, separate filing problems from collection problems, identify deadlines, and translate the available paths into a written scope. That may mean correcting an account, filing missing returns, evaluating payment terms, or preparing a different collection alternative. The facts choose the path.
How the written engagement starts
- Send the notices you have and identify the tax years involved.
- We review the paper trail and determine which transcripts or returns are needed.
- You receive a written explanation of the account, the proposed scope, and the fee.
- Work begins only after you approve the engagement in writing.
What to gather
- Every IRS notice or collection letter you have
- Copies of the affected returns, if available
- Recent IRS account or wage-and-income transcripts, if already obtained
- A short written timeline of filings, payments, and prior arrangements
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Yes. We begin by separating the account year by year and confirming which returns, assessments, payments, and collection actions belong to each period. Then we scope one coordinated path in writing.
- Most IRS payment and collection alternatives require filing compliance. If returns are missing, bringing those years current is normally part of the scope rather than a separate mystery you must solve alone.
- No. Interest and applicable penalties generally continue until the balance is paid or otherwise resolved under an approved process. We identify what is accruing and whether any relief request is supportable; we do not promise it.
- The fee depends on the number of years, filing status, collection stage, and work required. We issue the scope and fee after written file review, before the engagement opens.