I'm in big tax trouble with the IRS, for not paying past due taxes..,what can I do to lessen them?
410356
I suggest you get your stuff together, starting now...as in life. IF you are earning an income, you will have little recourse but to file all taxes with whatever payment you can muster. You will be levied fines and interest and penalties. IF you have a bank account, I strongly suggest withdrawing all monies from it, as if you have much in it, it will be siezed as soon as the IRS checks your assets out. IF you own a home, there will be liens placed upon it for the amount you owe. \nIF you do not have an income...relax!  Just don't plan on having one for about 1 year. NOW, go to a tax lawyer, spread out the mess. They will help you file, with addends as to NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY....the IRS will settle for whatever they can get, as little as .01 on the $ owed. You will have to pay something, but not anything like you may owe. Once you have an agreement with the IRS, DO NOT BREAK IT IN ANY WAY...if you do break the agreement, you will have to start all over, and trust they will then begin to hound you. Get yourself legal in any way you can, for the energy you spend on worrying about the IRS is destructive to your future. You can come out of this clean, and when you do, stay that way! You cannot go 'underground' and ever expect to earn much money in cash...people cannot pay much in cash, for they will be paying the income tax on whatever they pay you...do not expect much in the way of wages when you work this way. Be aware that anything and everything you own is subject to siezure IF you do not come clean... IF THEY Find out about your 'activities' before you tell them about it, they will come down on you hard....it is called tax evasion, and you can go to prison for it...doubtful, but certainly can happen. Once you file returns, they cannot jail you...they can just go after whatever they can get. Act now, this will not get better with time. Good luck
379956
You can go to jail for income tax evasion. Even if the government owes you money. If you knowingly did not file your taxes for the year 2004, you can be charged. If you owe money, you will pay that and penalities and intrest on what you owe. You need to contact a tax lawyer or just file anyway and get it over with.
372495
You can ask the IRS to set up an installment plan for you by filing Form 9465.  You will have to pay a one-time $43 setup fee plus penalty and interest.  On the form, you must indicate how much your propose to pay them each month.  To determine this figure, take your amount owed and divide it by 20 (you will pay them back over two year with penalty and interest).  This will be pretty close to what you will need to pay.\n\nAnother alternative is file your return without payment and wait for the IRS to send you a bill.  When you get the bill, send them what you can and wait for another bill.  Then send what you can.  You can keep this up until they decide to put you on a plan.  You might be able to avoid the $43 setup fee.\n\nWhatever you do, you will have to pay the amount you owe or face some possibly serious consequences.
264769
Talk to someone from IRS.They have a toll free number in the phone book or calla local tax place and ask them for help on what you can do...good luck!
282100
you never got last year's tax refund?\n\nI'd call IRS
177496
You owe them money because your tax liability was more than you paid in. It sounds like you may need to lessen your exemptions down to 1 or 0 if you can. That way, they'll take more out during the year and you should be covered on next years taxes. No, you didn't do anything wrong-this happens to people every year, especially if you live at home with parents or someone else who can claim head of household. Same thing used to happen to me every year when I lived at home. Start saving money, you have no choice but to pay it!\n\nUpdate:\nYou did live with someone else in the year that these taxes are for, so you can't claim a sole provider status, which is what I was trying to say. If you don't pay the money by the 15th, then you start getting into late fees and interest penalties, so they get more money out of you in the long wrong. Try to contact them and work something out.
136323
contact some good business in the same area.\ncompanies can also save for this kind of help on taxes, so hopefully you'll be able to get some company to help them.
399800
I hope I understood your situation correctly.  If you owe the IRS back taxes, they will continue to intercept your refunds until the debt is paid, even if they are also garnishing wages or taking other enforcement actions.  Federal law requires the IRS to do this, so it is not negotiable.\n\nTo reduce the amount intercepted, you may want to reduce the amount you are having withheld from your pay.  (See your company's HR or payroll person for this; you may need to do a new W-4 for them.)  You want to try to strike a balance between overpaying (which causes a refund, which gets intercepted) and underpaying (which will cause you to owe income tax at the end of the year).\n\nIf you can enter into a voluntary agreement with the IRS, they should stop the garnishment.  However, they will continue intercepting refunds until everything has been paid.  I hope that helps you.  Good luck.
46087
this is too funny to tell you . . . go to the IRS.  They will actually help you.\nImagine . . . the IRS actually helping people.  too funny.
87411
you pay money or get a return.\n(don't worry, the IRS doesn't have their sh*t togther enough to notice that you have not filed for years.)
52079
You should be getting a letter from the IRS about where the money went. That is standard practice. If not, the obvious one would be an outstanding Student Loan. They will take your money if you have not paid them. Have you done your research? Call the IRS and ask.
141961
It is possible to negotiate with the government to get your tax debt reduced.  I suspect this will only happen if it is realistic to expect that the debt won't be paid at all otherwise.  A personal accountant could probably help for under $1K.
394393
Call the IRS.  1-800-829-1040.  Do it later in the week though.  I'm sure that they are swamped with calls right now.
61512
You need to have a tax pro intervene with the IRS and ask the IRS to let you make payments.  Once the IRS sends you the letter that says you can make payments, you can get a loan.  That is if your FICO, debt ratio etc. is in line.  I know this for a fact-I do loans and have done loans with that same scenario. Hope that helps!
901304
I retired from IRS Collection Division 2 yrs ago after working 28 yrs. You need to go/phone IRS and ask for paperwork to file an "Offer in Compromise" Anyone who owes taxes to IRS has a RIGHT to this. It is a way for people to settle their tax debt when they cannot fully pay it. The IRS is required to help you along in the process, you do NOT need to pay an att'y or accountant to help you. You offer what you can afford, as little as $1. If you feel the IRS person is not helping you, then you have a RIGHT to speak to their supervisor. If the offer becomes accepted the tax lien is removed. I urge you to take action now, do not delay in contacting IRS. Write down names & ph # of IRS employees you talk to and notes as to what they tell you. Good luck.
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There will be penalties for failure to file / late filing, but there is unlikely to be any criminal consequence, unless you were intentionally hiding income or something.  Fortunately, those filing penalties reach maximums pretty quickly, and your refunds may be enough to cover them.  Like one respondent said, though, you're likely to be facing some more serious problems if you actually wind up owing taxes.  Don't panic, though; the IRS is usually rougher on businesses than on individuals, in my experience.  There are lots of ways to handle a tax debt, if it turns out that way, so do not ruin your life with worrying, okay?\n\nYou will probably want to get a CPA to do the old taxes for you, just because some CPAs (not all) will have kept the tax software around from years past for situations just like yours.  The CPA is going to need documents to try to re-create your finances from those years, though, so start gathering your bank statements and other records.  (You might have to ask the bank for copies of the old records, in which case they may charge you a fee for the trouble.)  I know some CPAs who specialize in this sort of thing, if you have no one else to turn to.\n\nRemember, for any situation you get in with the IRS, there's a good chance someone else owes 10x as much, has done 1/2 as much about it, and cares too little to even ask a question like yours.  Don't lose sleep over this or anything, just get started handling it.  And remember to file your taxes from now on!
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By all means, at least make sure you send the tax return in, even if you don't put a check with it.  You don't want to be penalized for non-filing.  As soon as the state processes your return, they will send you a bill for the amount due.  Just remember, the longer you go without paying, the more interest and penalties add up!