If you have not been paying your taxes despite the IRS' reminders and efforts in collecting from you, they may resort to imposing a levy (also known as garnishment) on your salary.  Your employer is obligated by law to cooperate and the IRS can take as much as 75 percent of your entire earnings, which leaves you with almost nothing. Such levies can be disastrous unless you know how to get out of them.

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The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) makes it obligatory for the IRS to be responsible in handling your tax information.Under current rules, you are allowed to see any and all information or documents held by the IRS that pertains to you and your family. Even in requesting a lot of information, all you need to do is pay a token sum as you make your request and the IRS has to honor it.
It is in this way that the FOIA and the IRS are linked.When it comes to making a FOIA request, most of us only think of requesting something extremely critical like our FBI file.  But few think about requesting for their personal IRS details when being audited or even for no reason out of the ordinary.However, if you are being audited or you are just inquisitive as to how the IRS uses your file or who looks at it, you can ask for a copy of all information as it pertains to your file.

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Shock, horror and disbelief were the main expressions most people had in reaction to the tragic suicide plane crash ala 9/11 at the IRS building in Austin, Texas last Thursday.  Quite miraculously, out of about 200 IRS workers in the building, only the pilot and one other man perished in the crash.  However, 13 others were injured, some critically.  The nation’s condolences go out to the family of the sole IRS victim, Vernon Hunter, 67 a Vietnam war veteran.

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An irate man crashed his single engine Piper Cherokee airplane into the side of the 7 storey IRS building in Austin, Texas Thursday morning leaving at least 2 dead and some 13 people injured, 2 of who are in critical condition.  Joseph Andrew Stack a 53 year old software engineer, apparently furious with the IRS, posted a suicide note online that said, “Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.”  After he wrote his suicide note, Stack set his own house on fire with his wife, Sheryl and stepdaughter sleeping inside before leaving for the airport.  The wife and stepdaughter managed to escape unhurt.

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Dealing with tax debts can be a very complicated thing.  That is why it is important to be aware of the various options you can take to reduce or sometimes eliminate your debt.  There are free and there are paid options.  No matter which source of tax debt help you choose to use, it is vital to stay proactive when it comes to dealing with your debt issues.

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