If you are a business owner with substantial IRS back tax issues, it is incredibly important to understand that the severity of your problem puts you in the top 5 to 10 percent of all tax delinquencies in the entire United States of America.
You have to understand that for most people who have back tax issues, their problem fundamentally is that they owe a relatively small amount of money (usually $25,000 or less), and they accumulated this debt because they came into hard times or some difficulty in life. The IRS is very understanding of people in this situation, and makes it easy for these people to remediate their issues.
In your case though, the IRS looks at you and thinks:
- You’re making decent money (because even if you don’t feel like you’re really making that much, at least “on paper” you have 6-figure+ revenues coming into your bank account).
- You’re a productive member of society (e.g. your compliance issue isn’t related to illness, job loss, some understandable reason beyond your control)
- BUT…
- You owe an absolutely incredible amount in back taxes (6 figures or more)
- You haven’t filed your taxes in a long time.
- And (from their perspective) you don’t seem to be doing much to try to fix it.
In this kind of situation, the IRS has substantially less mercy. They look at people in this situation as scofflaws, and are more than happy to bring down the hammer to try to collect as much as they can “now”.
If you’re in this situation, your ability to get out of it on favorable, workable terms depends 100% upon your skill in high-stakes negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service. Each communication with them has to be specifically designed to maximize your odds of success.
Our firm has extensive experience helping taxpayers resolve their back IRS tax issues through high-stakes IRS negotiation. If you are a business owner facing down a substantial IRS back tax issue, contact us today to start working towards lasting relief.