{"id":1518,"date":"2012-09-25T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T23:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:39:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:39:05","slug":"my-husband-left-me-with-irs-tax-debt-do-i-need-a-phoenix-az-irs-tax-attorney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/my-husband-left-me-with-irs-tax-debt-do-i-need-a-phoenix-az-irs-tax-attorney\/","title":{"rendered":"My Husband Left Me With IRS Tax Debt.  Do I Need a Phoenix AZ IRS Tax Attorney?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Phoenix AZ IRS Tax Attorney or a licensed Enrolled Agent:<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>This situation is not a legal matter and does not require a Phoenix AZ IRS tax attorney.\u00a0 The most common removal of the IRS tax debt is to file for innocent spouse relief.\u00a0 Many wives find out that they owe large amounts of money to the IRS after their divorce or the death of their husband.<\/p>\n<p>Often times the husband has not reported income or taken deductions that are disallowed by the IRS.\u00a0 As long as the income was attributable to the actions of the husband <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">and <\/span>the wife did not benefit financially from this action, she can be relieved of the tax debt.\u00a0 In other words, if the wife has a new car and a nice home from the bogus actions of her husband, she has benefited from his action and the wife would need to either sell the home or trade in her vehicle for a lower cost one to qualify for injured spouse status.<\/p>\n<p>If the wife has been divorced or living apart for the last 12 months, the wife has 2 years to elect to file as married filing separately.\u00a0 This allows the wife to be taxed only on the money she earned and not the income that was not reported to the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Allen E.A. can help you sort through your scenario to see if you qualify for this tax procedure.\u00a0 He is available for a free consultation at 480-926-9300.\u00a0 Scott is not a Phoenix AZ IRS Tax Attorney but rather a licensed Enrolled Agent here in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix AZ IRS Tax Attorney or a licensed Enrolled Agent: This situation is not a legal matter and does not require a Phoenix AZ IRS tax attorney.\u00a0 The most common removal of the IRS tax debt is to file for innocent spouse relief.\u00a0 Many wives find out that they owe large amounts of money to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,37,29],"tags":[92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7435,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/7435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxdebtadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}