Does anyone know how often a trustee will seize your tax refund after bankruptcy?
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I don't think that they are allowed to seize your refund after the bankruptcy has been discharged!  I'm like 90% sure that as soon as you are discharged the people that you used to owe money too are no longer allowed to contact you in any way shape or form (to include looking into tax returns bank accounts whatever) unless you give them written permission to do so.  You should really contact the lawyer that you filed with and ask them, after all that's what you paid them for!!!
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Yes! A civil judgment can be collected by seizure of personal property to be sold at auction and proceeds applied to the judgement amount. Also, it will prevent him (and possibly you since you are married) from getting financing for homes until the judgment is satisfied. I don't know how far the company is willing to go to attempt to collect thier money, and laws very from state to state,\nI suggest you, or he, or both contact an attorney for your best course of action. Since you are married, this will also effect his and possibly your credit reports and scores.
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If I understand your question correctly, you want to know if you will be entitled to a 100% refund of all of the taxes withheld from your paycheck when you file your tax return, because of the bankruptcy.  The answer is NO. Bankruptcy does not erase your tax liability to the IRS.  As others have pointed out, you may owe additional tax on the amount of debt forgiven under the bankruptcy.
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They will not discharge your bankruptcy until you do so.  The judge/trustee will dismiss it and collection procedures will begin again by your creditors.
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They say 4-6 weeks, and they are the IRS, so they will do as they please. If your return is being detained for auditing it could take as long as they want it to be. I wouldn't make any waves.
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Ok, to get your tax return, they had to go to court and get a judgemnet and also get a garnishment of your federal tax returns.\n\nYou should have been notified fo at least one, most likely two court dates and had numerous papers form the school and from the courts.\n\nOk with that said, you can go to the court and review the file of all the evidnece that they have.  A court ordered garnishment can not be stoped without a court order from that court.\n\nSo if you find they didnot have proper evidence or some reason to reopen the case, you will have to file in court for a review of the garnishment.  And present your case to the judge normally requiring an attorney
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You can dispute it through all three credit bureaus and also contact the bankruptcy trustee and let them know. They can help you also.
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Hi there. I edited a few books on bankruptcy several years ago. From what I recall, your answer depends on if you owe any money on the car (is it still financed) and did you exempt it from your list of assets in your bankruptcy filings?\n\nIf it's still financed and you exempted it (meaning you intend to go ahead and pay for it) then you shouldn't have to turn it over to the court. If it's paid off and you included in your assets to forfeit, then you probably have to do that before you leave the state. Either that, or go ahead and make your move and then return the car to your court asap. You can always fly back to Florida.\n\nI would call your attorney and ask him/her before you do anything else. You may find you can keep it. In some states, you're allowed to keep one vehicle provided you listed it as an asset when you filed. You may also find your vehicle has no seizure value for the court, in which case, they won't bother to take it.\n\nGood luck, whatever you decide.\n\nFiveStarAuthor@aol.com
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I do.  Every year, I deposit my income tax refund.  I have savings and a cd account.  This tax year, I'm opening my mutual fund account.
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The best course of action would be to contact an attorney. Never accept answer on such an important future impacting question from a place like this! However that being said, go here\n\nhttp://www.co.beaufort.sc.us/Auditor/Homestead.asp\n\nand here\n\nhttp://www.bankruptcyaction.com/scexemptions.htm
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They can assess taxes for 3 years from the date your return was due or the date you filed, whichever is later.  Once they have assess the taxes, I am not aware of a time limit for collecting.  The link below id IRS Publication 594 titled "What You Should Know About The IRS Collection Process."  The 10 year figure mentioned in the first answer appears to be the term of a tax lien "if the IRS has not filed it again."  I saw no limit on how many times they can file a lien.
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You'd have to look up the laws of the appropriate state, but in general tax lien sales take many years before you gain possession (5 years?). The delinquent may at any time re-claim the property by paying the taxes. They'd have to go like 5 years and never pay, then you could get a quit-claim deed (or something like that), then I think wait a few more years before the property is actually yours.
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I take it that one of your creditors has made you bankrupt in England.\n\nUnfortunately there's not a lot you can do to counter that -- except that if you are in fact insolvent the creditor is going to get nothing and will have paid £400 or so to relieve you of all your debts, including his.\n\nI'm on holiday right now, but I have Prof. Ian Fletcher's treatise on English bankruptcy law at home and I was reading up on this question last week.\n\nA vindictive or stupid creditor (Amex does it all the time) can make a debtor bankrupt, and the only defense is that the money isn't owed. But few creditors ever get any money by doing this. Yet, in England (though never in America) they do it all the time.\n\nYou will get convoked before a referee or trustee and you will be examined on your assets. These days "guilt" (as in over-spending) is hardly an issue. Everybody is over-spent and over-indebted. So long as you're not hiding anything there's nothing they can do. It's an offence to abscond with assets or to hide assets. The first thing you should do is to tell anyone who might die and leave you money to change their will to put it in a discretionary trust. \n\nGood luck.
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it should be cleared, as well as all attempts to collect it after 7 years of default. you will have to do the leg work as creditors won't do it on their own, so push them and keep pushing them to remove it.
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First, this is a question for legal counsel in the jurisdiction.  Bankruptcy law is a mix of local and national laws.  That said, the money isn't yours once you go into bankruptcy, it is the trustee's money now.  Everything due to you isn't yours anymore.  Whether you can gain access to the funds depends totally on the particulars of your case.  Think of it as no different than if you had $2000 in a checking account.
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Judge Joe Brown would love for you to give him a call.  LOL, but if not, Small Claims Court is definately the way to go.  It helps if you have documentation that you actually gave them the money (such as a cancelled check).  But the odds are your friend wont show up for court anyway, and you'll just get a default judgement for the $$.  Of course, collecting the $$ after that can be a whole new challenge.
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A debt canceled in bankruptcy is generally not a taxable event.  There are four types of exclusions from income.  Publication 906 will give you the details.  You can get it on-line (IRS.gov Publications), through the mail or at your local IRS office.\n\nYou might want to see a tax preparer - one that knows about bankruptcy.\n\nIs box 6 X'd on your 1099C? If not, and you are sure it was discharged by the Bankruptcy Court you need to contact the issuer for a corrected form.