Most people think that negotiating delinquent taxes is beyond their scope, but this work is largely done by data entry clerks – not tax lawyers.  It is easy to think incorrectly that only a tax attorney can resolve an IRS problem.  The entire tax relief industry is set up to make you think you need to hire an expensive IRS lawyer.  What no one tells you is that the majority of the paperwork is prepared data entry clerks.  These $9.00 an hour “tax experts” simply type data (provided by you) into a computerized IRS form.  Simply stated, if your income is $33,000 a year its does not matter if that is entered on the IRS form by you, a data entry clerk or the best attorney that ever lived.

Most people think that a high-powered tax lawyer is spending days or weeks in intense negotiations with tough IRS agents – WRONG.  Unless your paycheck is under a tax garnishment or you under a tax levy chances are very high your IRS problem is being handled through the mail.  In many cases, the phone is never picked up except by the “Tax Consultant” (sales rep) to collect the next payment you owe the tax relief firm.

The IRS prefers the mail and a clever tax attorney plays right along with them.  The mail is the preferred method of negotiating for several reasons.  Using the mail slows the tax settlement process considerably and gives a IRS debt firm time to collect their enormous fees.  Since you don’t know the mail is being used it gives the appearance of a time consuming project, helping to justify big attorney fees.  This is why it takes forever to get your tax debt settlement completed.  Of course, you think the tax attorney is busy working away on your IRS problem.

If you have ever wondered why you cannot talk to the actual attorney it because that conversation might well double the time he spends on your case.  Most people find this fact hard to believe, but if you look at the six pages of paperwork it takes to get an Offer in Compromise working you will immediately understand.  These supposedly “complex” forms are simply data about your job, car payment, electric bill, address etc.  Looking at the IRS forms, you will notice that this is the exact same information you gave to the tax debt firm.  You do not need a tax professional to do data entry work.  The tax lawyer simply checks the data entry person’s work for errors.  If there are no errors a few simple calculations are made to get to your tax settlement.  These calculations are not complex algorithms, just basic math you’ve learned by the 5th grade.

 

There are two types of Tax Debt debt issues people encounter.   Your  tax problem is either Urgent or Not Yet Urgent.  The work performed is the same only doing it now or later  is the question.  It’s urgent if you are currently under a tax levy, tax garnishment of your paycheck, IRS bank seizure or verbal threat of a tax levy from an IRS agent.  If this is your situation, you will want your paycheck or bank account safely returned quick and that is urgent.  If you have received a “Final Notice of Intent to Levy” letter that’s probably urgent as well.  Most people can tell when an IRS agent is breathing fire on them.

 

This is how a tax attorney prioritizes your case as well.  If you are under a tax levy, the lawyers always charge bigger fees and demand payment up front.  This is because with a tax levy in place the tax attorney has to  actually work your case himself. He will need to get on the phone  personally and that eats up more or his time than the usual data entry checking and mailing of your IRS forms. 

 

On the lighter side, in most tax levy situations the entire tax debt settlement is handled in a phone call or two.  No one pays the outstanding tax lawyer fees when they see how little work was actually performed.  Go figure 3 hours after taking your case the tax levy is gone, your paycheck garnishment is over and you’re set up on a payment plan.  Once a person figures out he was getting charged more than $1,500 per hour he gets cranky.  If people only knew most of the work was data entry and less than 30 minutes for the attorney I would sell a lot more Tax Debt Relief Kits.

 

It is no harder to call the IRS than to call a Tax Attorney. 

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