Revenue Officers are local IRS employees who are assigned to the largest tax delinquency cases. Whereas the vast majority of IRS back tax debts are serviced by the IRS Automated Collections Service (ACS) department (which essentially is a national call center who pursues millions of delinquent taxpayers), Revenue Officers are assigned to your case specifically.
When a Revenue Officer is assigned to your case, the level of scrutiny the IRS will place into you and your financial situation will escalate to a 10 out of 10. These Revenue Officers have the power to summon your financial records, to speak with your customers and business colleagues, and ultimately to seize your business’ assets, including but not limited to bank accounts, real estate, machinery, inventory, and equipment.
Taxpayers who are dealing with the IRS Automated Collections Service department generally have more leeway and flexibility in resolving their problem because they are dealing with an IRS call center employee who does not know the taxpayer from Adam, and who resolving the taxpayer’s case is just one of 50 phone calls they will take that day.
A Revenue Officer, on the other hand, has only a relative handfull off cases they are pursuing, and they are tasked by the Internal Revenue Service with much higher standards of due diligence in order to resolve a case.
If you or your business has delinquent IRS taxes, and you have an IRS Revenue Officer who is assigned to your case, it is important to get a handle on this situation as soon as possible. These problems are fixable, but they require a very different strategy. Our firm has succesfully represented taxpayers who have had Revenue Officers, including those whose tax delinquency has ranged into the multi-7 figures.