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How Does the IRS Punish Mesa Arizona Taxpayers for not Filing on Time?

Before you fail to file on time due to procrastination or fear consider the following:

  • Once the IRS files a substitute for return, you cannot discharge the tax debt for that year in a bankruptcy.
  • The IRS can prosecute you for refusing to file returns which can result in one year in prison for each year not filed.
  • The interest and penalties can double or triple the amount due by the time you file your return.
  • Social security benefits will be lost if you are self-employed and fail to file within three years of the due date.
  • Refunds will be lost if the returns are not filed within three years of the due date.
  • Earned income credit will be forfeited if you do not file within three years of the due date.

Filing on time is the best way to avoid a serious tax problem with the IRS in Gilbert or Mesa AZ.  Scott Allen E.A. has the expertise to file back tax returns and negotiate the best settlement allowed by law if you owe.  Call Scott Allen EA today at 480-926-9300 to schedule a free initial, in office, appointment.

 

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For Federal IRS Tax Relief in Scottsdale AZ call Scott Allen, E.A.

IRS Tax Relief in Scottsdale AZ

Scott Allen E.A. has expertise is all areas of IRS resolution work in Scottsdale AZ.  He has taken over his family IRS relief business which has helped resolve over 113,000 IRS debts since 1977.  Scott handles all client contact from beginning to end.  He is licensed to represent clients in all 50 states including Arizona.  Scott’s office is in Mesa, Arizona.  He will not take your case unless it is in your best interest.  That’s why his company, Tax Debt Advisors, has been in business for 45 years.  Scott will give you straight answers and follow through service.  Scott Allen E.A. guarantees the most aggressive tax preparation and IRS settlements allowed by law.  He will help you with IRS tax relief in Scottsdale AZ. Call Scott today at 480-926-9300 and he will make today a great day for you!

 

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Scott Allen E.A. for information on all of the IRS Tax Relief Programs

IRS Tax Relief Programs

If you have an IRS tax debt in Gilbert AZ and are confused about how to get it resolved, call Scott Allen E.A.   Scott offers a free consultation and can outline each of the options that apply to you and get that settlement option approved by the IRS.  Scott will require some financial information that needs to be accurate and complete.  Even minor omissions can make one option appear to be better than the right option.  Scott Allen of Gilbert AZ promises follow through service but that is worthless unless you provide correct information in a timely manner.  Only you can tie Scott’s hands—not the IRS.  Scott can be reached at 480-926-9300 for an appointment.  If you call from out of town, Scott will schedule a telephone appointment.  Either way Scott Allen E.A. will make that appointment a great day for you!

 

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Call Scott Allen E.A. if you receive an Avondale AZ IRS 30 Day Non-Filer letter

IRS 30 Day Non Filer Letter in Avondale AZ

This is not a serious notice from the IRS but it does need to be dealt with promptly to prevent it from becoming serious.  The IRS in Avondale AZ is warning you that you have 30 days to file a return for the year mentioned on the notice.  If you are in need of professional preparation may I suggest you consider calling Scott Allen E.A.?  Scott provides the most aggressive tax preparation allowed by law at very reasonable rates.  If you have other unresolved IRS tax debts, Scott Allen E.A. has expertise in resolving all of your IRS matters.  Call Scott today for a free consultation at 480-926-9300 and he will make that day a great day for you!

 

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Call Scott Allen E.A. if your IRS Tax Debt in Tempe AZ keeps going up

Tempe AZ IRS Tax Debt

If your Tempe AZ IRS tax debt keeps going up despite making monthly payments, perhaps you need to consider a different option.  This is where an IRS resolution professional with expertise in settling IRS debts can really help and bring you peace of mind that you are doing the right option.  If you IRS debt will expire shortly because of the IRS statute of limitations is about to wipe out your IRS liability, don’t worry that the balance is going up.  Just continue making your payments.

Scott Allen E.A. near Tempe AZ offers a free consultation to evaluate your current situation and will advise if there is a better option for you to consider.  Scott can be reached at 480-926-9300 and will make your consultation appointment a great day for you!

 

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Dostoevsky and the IRS

Those with a Gilbert AZ IRS Problem

Let us review a few quotes from the famous Russian novelist and see how they might apply to your Gilbert AZ IRS problem.

 

But first let us share a brief biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

 

Fyodor Dostoevsky is renowned as one of the world’s greatest novelists and literary psychologists.  Born in Moscow in 1821, the son of a doctor, Dostoevsky was educated first at home and then at a boarding school.  When he was a young boy, his father sent him to the St Petersburg Academy of Military Engineering, from which he graduated in 1843.  Dostoevsky had long been interested in writing and he immediately resigned from his position in the military to devote himself to writing.

 

Dostoevsky’s early view of the world was shaped by his experience with social injustice.  At the age of twenty-six, Dostoevsky became active in socialist circles, largely because of his opposition to the institution of serfdom.  His political opinions were influenced by his experiences as a young boy—his father was murdered by his own serfs while Dostoevsky was away at school.  Another experience that greatly affected Dostoevsky, and found its way into his writing, was the time he spent in prison.

 

Dostoevsky wrote with genuine compassion for the poor.  Rather than just exhorting the rich and powerful to do something for those humiliated by poverty, oppression, and insult, he endeavored to find some shred of dignity in them and revealed their inner worth.  Yet even as he made himself the novelist of the poor and the insulted, he had to fight his own battles against debt and oppression.

 

In 1846, Dostoevsky found himself in debt to an unscrupulous publisher and just three years later, he was arrested for working with a group that planned to publish illegal articles calling for political reform.  In the middle of the 19th century, Russia was ruled by the reactionary Nicholas the First, who had crushed an uprising against him on his very first day as Tsar in December 1825 and thereafter set out to silence every voice of dissent.

On April 23, 1849, Dostoevsky was arrested for his participation in a group that illegally printed and distributed socialist propaganda.  After spending eight months in prison, Dostoevsky was sentenced to death for membership in the group and was led, with other members of the group, to be shot.  But the execution turned out to be a mere show, meant to punish the prisoners psychologically.  Just as he and others were to be shot, a horseman rode up at the last second with a reprieve from the Czar.  Dostoevsky then spent four years at a labor camp in Siberia, followed by four years of forced military service.

Dostoevsky never forgot his four years in a Siberian prison.  He never forgot the filth, stench, chains, cockroaches and the loathing he endured from his “lowborn” fellow convicts.  But prison became the crucible in which Dostoevsky re-forged his own soul.  Almost miraculously, he emerged from it with a renewed faith in the teachings of Christ and the value of common people—even convicts.  He was released from prison in 1854.

 

In 1857, Dostoevsky married Mariya Dmitriyevna Isayeva.  In 1859, he returned to St. Petersburg a full 10 years after he left it.  There he launched a new journal with his brother Mikhail and published a book about his ordeal in Siberia.  By 1865 he had reached the height of his powers and needed all the internal strength he could muster.  He was faced with the death of his brother and of his own tubercular wife whom he had married seven years before.  During this time he struggled with poverty, epilepsy, and an addiction to gambling.

 

In 1867, he married a second time to Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina, who helped him with his medical challenges and served as his stenographer for his novel, The Brothers Karamazov, which is one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, and remains the capstone of Dostoevsky’s achievement today.  Dostoevsky died in 1881, only a year after The Brothers Karamazov was published.

 

The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoevsky’s deepest and most complex examination of crucial philosophical questions dealing with the human condition.  In it, he addresses the conflict between faith and doubt, the problem of free will, and the question of moral responsibility.

 

Dostoevsky Quotes

 

  • One must love life before loving its meaning.  When the love of life ceases, no meaning can console us.

 

This is without question my favorite quote.  It perhaps has influenced me in how I live my life differently than before.  I grew up thinking that if one knew the meaning of life, that would be enough to love life.  From Dostoevsky I learned that the exact opposite is true.  We must first love life and if we don’t then it has no meaning or what we thought was the meaning of life cannot console us or bring us happiness.

 

A serious problem with the IRS can rob us of loving life as much as any of life’s challenges.  I have seen marriages and families break up, homes lost, credit destroyed, and the list goes on and on.  I have also seen the amazing change that comes over a client once their IRS problem is resolved.  Now food taste better, Disneyland is fun, sleep is deep and relaxing, hobbies are enjoyable and sex is satisfying.

 

It is critical that you choose the right person with the expertise to resolve your IRS problem.  May I recommend Scott Allen E.A. to be your IRS resolution professional.   Scott personally derives great satisfaction from helping clients get their love of life back.  He looks forward going to work each day.  Once you get your love of life back, its meaning will be restored back to you.

  • Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.  To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

 

Many of our clients feel like they are criminals or committed an evil act.  This is not true.  Scott Allen E.A. will tell you the difference between a criminal act and a negligent act.  In most cases your IRS problem is a traffic ticket, not a hit and run.  Once you know that Scott understands who you are, you will know that you have come to the right person to resolve you IRS tax debt.

 

  • Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

 

Happiness comes as you resolve your Gilbert AZ IRS problem.  Those who have never had a serious IRS problem can never have the same level of happiness as one who has not experienced personally a difficult IRS matter.  It is the relief of pain that brings happiness, not the absence of pain.

 

  • One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

 

Scott Allen E.A. is a very funny professional on purpose.  What a person laughs at and the way they laugh reveals a lot about a person.  It is also one of Scott’s ways of putting your mind at ease.  A good laugh triggers a release of pent up emotions.  And Gilbert AZ IRS problems can be a very emotional event.

 

Scott Allen E.A. is available for a free consultation.  Contact Scott at 480-926-9300 and put your mind at ease.

Print off this blog and bring it with you at the initial consultation and receive $75.00 off any IRS resolution work we do.  One blog offer per client.

 

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IRS Tax Penalties: Can they be removed?

Be Leery of Promises of Tempe AZ IRS Tax Attorneys to remove IRS Penalties

The only penalties that always get removed or lessened occur automatically when you file an amended return that shows a lower balance due or when you file a return to correct an IRS substitute for return and the tax due is lower.  You do not need any resolution work to lower the penalties.  If a taxpayer has had a “track record” of always filing on time and has a good reason for missing a filing deadline such as an illness, the taxpayer can request that the penalties be removed after any tax liability has been paid in full.  If the taxpayer has a habit of filing late, it is unlikely the IRS will removed penalties.

To remove penalties, the taxpayer files IRS form 843 and requests a refund of the penalties previously paid.  The IRS will want to see that there was a reasonable cause and not willful neglect.  Other probable causes for requesting a refund of penalties paid could include hospitalization, incarceration, severe depression, or serving in the military and out of the country during the time the return or the extension needed to be filed.  A Tempe Arizona IRS Tax Attorney can do this work but it is not necessary.  An Enrolled Agent or a Certified Public Accountant can file the necessary paperwork for you if you need assistance.  It is always best to consult with a professional before filing the paperwork to determine if you have a unique enough case to get penalties removed.

Other than the reasons mentioned, it is unlikely to get penalties removed.  This is especially true for returns that are filed years after the due date.  Most legitimate reasons would apply to the current year only.  In seeking penalty abatement, it is not necessary, nor will it increase your chances of success to use an IRS Tax Attorney in Tempe AZ.  If you would like a free consultation to see if your penalties can be removed, call Scott Allen E.A. at 480-926-9300.  He will be able to provide additional information not included here that will increase your chances of getting penalty abatement for legitimate reasons.

 

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2013 IRS forms 1040, 1040A, 1040EZ, 1040NR, & 1040X: IRS help from Mesa AZ

Free Printable 2013 PDF Tax Forms 1040EZ 1040A 1040 and Instructions

Free Printable 2013 PDF Tax Forms 1040EZ 1040A 1040 and Instructions

These 2013 income tax .pdf forms for IRS Federal 1040A, 1040EZ and 1040 long form filers can be downloaded in PDF format for free by using the links below. 2013 tax forms were due by April 15, 2013 for the income tax year Jan 1st, 2013 through Dec 31, 2013 but if you are filing your forms late, there may be interest and penalties you will incur for each day you are late.

Click on any of the 2013 tax form links below to view, print, and/or save.

2013 IRS form 1040:  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf

2013 IRS form 1040A:  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040a.pdf

2013 IRS form 1040EZ:  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040ez.pdf

2013 IRS form 1040NR:  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040nr.pdf

2013 IRS form 1040X:  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040x.pdf

Click on the above links to get a free copy of the blank form you are seeking.  If you have any questions or need tax preparation help call and talk with our company Tax Debt Advisors, Inc.  We have been preparing tax return for over 37 years.  We offer quick convenient service as competitive prices.

You need the 1040 EZ form if you are: Single Filers, Joint Filers, No Dependents, United States Resident with the below qualifications:

  • Filing with single or married joint statuses
  • You/Spouse must both be under 65 and not blind
  • 0 dependents
  • Income has to be less than $100,000
  • 0 deductions for student loan interest, educator expenses or tuition
  • 0 claimed credits for retirement savings, education or health coverage
  • 0 advances of earned income credit
  • This form will allow you to claim earned income tax credits
  • Earnings must be from wages, tips, salaries, scholarships or grant, Alaska Permanent Fund Dividends, unemployment compensation
  • $1,500 or less taxable interest

You need the 1040 A Form for: All filing Statuses, US Resident, No Itemized Deductions

  • Income has to be less than $100,000
  • Capital gain distributions only, no other capital gains or losses
  • Credits for education, child, earned income, adoption, dependent care and retirement savings contributions
  • Tax deductions for student loan interest, IRA contributions, higher education tuition or educator expenses.
  • 0 itemized deductions such as property tax payments and mortgage interest
  • If your tax return is very complex, the 1040 form might be for you

You need the 1040 form for: All Filing Statuses, All Credits and Deduction, US Resident with the below qualifications

  • Taxable income is more than $100,000 or more
  • You must use if your taxable income is $100,000 or more.
  • Useful for itemizing your deductions, such as property tax payments and mortgage interest
  • If you don’t qualify to use the 1040A or 1040EZ, you need to use this form
  • Investing, business or items that require advanced schedules need to use this 1040 form

All of our 2013 tax forms are available in PDF format and can be downloaded by clicking on the link to the form you need. Make sure and use a high quality printer to print your tax form on. Use black and white or grayscale printing in order to print properly. You don’t need color to print these forms.

 

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New IRS Offer in Compromise rules and changes

IRS Offer in Compromise rules

Important changes to the IRS’s Offer in Compromise Program (Form 656).  IRS Tax Problem help from Tax Debt Advisors, Inc. here in Mesa, Arizona

Offer in Compromises have become increasingly tough to get the IRS to accept over the last 10-15 years.  Most taxpayers made too much money or had expenses too high that the IRS does not accept.  In previous years the IRS multiplied your monthly available income by either 48 or 60.  As of recent years the IRS has changed those numbers to 12 and 48.  This is a huge difference in Offer amounts the taxpayer would be required to pay to the IRS for their past tax debt.  Call and talk with me, Scott Allen, E.A. and schedule an appointment for a free consultation to discuss your IRS (or state) debt.   While the old Offer in Compromises rule didn’t work for you in the past, find out today if you will qualify under the new IRS Offer in Compromise rules.

Scott Allen, E.A.  Tax Debt Advisors, Inc  Phone 480-926-9300

Mesa AZ IRS tax debt help, Gilbert AZ IRS Offer in Compromise help, Chandler AZ IRS problem help, Phoenix AZ File Back Tax Returns, Scottsdale AZ IRS Tax Settlement Company

 

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IRS Tax Settlement Options in Arizona: Free Consultation

Arizona IRS Settlement Options

Here is a quick checklist:

  • ·         A monthly payment plan
  • ·         Pay the debt off in full
  • ·         Let the statute of limitations run out
  • ·         File an Appeal
  • ·         Utilize an Audit Reconsideration
  • ·         File an Offer in Compromise
  • ·         Seek relief as an innocent spouse
  • ·         Qualify for a non collectible status
  • ·         Discharge the taxes in bankruptcy
  • ·         Penalty abatement

There are pros and cons to each of these options.  Each has the opportunity to settle your tax debt.  Call today for a free initial confidential consultation to determine what your next step should be.  My office is conveniently located near Lindsey and Southern Avenue.

Scott Allen, E.A. – Tax Debt Advisors, Inc

IRS Tax Settlement Options in Arizona:  Free Consultation

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