3 Signs Your Back Taxes Will Be Assigned To A Revenue Officer (Local IRS Enforcement Employee).
Although the vast majority of IRS back tax cases are enforced by the IRS’ national collections center…
…there are a significant number that are enforced by Revenue Officers, who are local IRS employees who personally go after delinquent taxpayers.
As you can imagine, the level of enforcement here is a huge increase. This can easily include personal visits to your business, your home, and your customers. It’s also far more likely that the IRS will take asset and funds seizure actions with a Revenue Officer on the case.
Is your back tax situation at risk of Revenue Officer assignment? This usually happens for one of 3 reasons:
1.) Egregious Noncompliance
Have you been getting letters for years, but been blowing it off? Made significant promises to the IRS in the past, and didn’t keep them? Eventually, the IRS may decide it needs more “robust” enforcement to collect what’s owed, and assign your case to a local Revenue Officer.
2.) Extensive Nonfiling and Nonpayment History
If you haven’t filed in years…if you owe 6 figures, or multiple 6 figures or more…the IRS may conclude that the “normal” methods of enforcement are ineffective, and may turn to a Revenue Officer.
3.) Huge Gap Between Your Life Success & Your Level of Tax Compliance
Are you making a lot of money? Is your business generating decent revenue? But you are not filing and paying taxes?
The IRS is going to want to investigate this discrepancy in more detail, and may do so through a Revenue Officer.
Moral of the Story:
If you have a Revenue Officer on your case, it’s time to come out of hibernation, and take this seriously. If it hasn’t happened, yet, it’s time to get this resolved before it rises to that level.