On April 20, 2017, the United States Tax Court (Court) held in favor the petitioners, John C. Trimmer and Susan Trimmer (together, the Trimmers) against the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, regarding the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS’s) authority to consider a hardship waiver and the notion that the IRS’s authority on the hardship waiver is not [...]
The United States Department of Treasury (the Treasury) issued “The American Families Plan Tax Compliance Agenda,” detailing how the current administration intends to tackle the ever-looming noncompliance issue. This report was a follow up to the April of 2021 American Families Plan that included proposals that the administration announced to increase tax compliance. The Treasury [...]
The recently imposed social distancing measures that are critical and essential to our nation’s battle with the coronavirus have had a dramatic impact on everyone’s everyday life. No one is exempt or excused from that impact. This includes our nation’s taxing authorities. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has created and is updating a website to [...]
Yes. If you owe money to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the IRS has many tools it may use to collect that money, including foreclosure action against your home. This is usually a tool of last resort for the IRS. The IRS will generally take many other steps to try to collect the outstanding federal [...]