tax

Our Audit Defense Specialists will help you respond to an IRS Audit.

An IRS audit can be triggered by irregularities on a taxpayer's tax return or simply because the tax return has been selected at random to be audited.

IRS Collection Statute Expiration Dates

The Collection Statute Expiration Date (CSED) for IRS taxes is, in most cases, 10 years. Once this Statute period has run, any remaining tax debt is forgiven. The statutory period begins on the date the tax debt is assessed which is usually shortly after a taxpayers returns are filed. If a taxpayer never filed their returns the Collection Statute would begin on the date that the IRS creates a substitute return (SFR) for the taxpayer.

We Can Help Remove Your Spouse's Tax Liability from Your Tax Record

Not every marriage ends up "happily ever after." If one of the people in the relationship failed to pay their taxes, this can make a difficult situation even worse. While you were married, if you filed Married Filing Jointly and that return had an unpaid liability, the IRS views both taxpayers as 100% responsible for the tax liability. The IRS can make the innocent party pay for the debt or forfeit their income tax refunds.

We Can Help you Negotiate a Fair IRS Installment Agreement

Installment agreements are set up when a taxpayer cannot afford to pay their entire tax debt all at once, but can afford to pay it over time. Standard installment agreements are paid as a fixed payment every month. IRS or State installment payments can be debited directly from a taxpayer's paycheck or bank account automatically, or can be paid by check each month. With the IRS and many states, payments can also be made online. The IRS uses EFTPS to accept online payments.

We Can Help you Eliminate IRS Penalties

If you have been assessed Tax Penalties by the IRS because you fell behind on your taxes, you may not have to pay all of them back to the IRS if you had a good reason for not filing or paying the tax in the first place. In fact, you may not even owe any Tax Penalties at all if they were assessed to you unfairly by the IRS. Unfortunately, when it comes to Tax Penalties, you are assumed guilty until you can show them that you do not deserve to be charged these excessive Penalties.

Washington Tax Services Provides a variety of services to assist individuals and small businesses with all types of tax needs.