Wage Garnishments

Los Angeles Tax Attorneys are greatly experienced at dealing with IRS wage garnishments. A wage garnishment is one of the final steps that the Internal Revenue Service will consider in its attempt to collect back taxes. This only occurs when the Internal Revenue Service has failed repeatedly in its methods of collecting back taxes. Once agents have run out of options, they begin to seize assets.

A wage garnishment takes place when the Internal Revenue Service attaches the wages of taxpayers. Once the IRS files a wage garnishment with your employer, the employer is required by law to collect a percentage of your paycheck and distribute it to the IRS. This is completely different from a levy. A levy is where the IRS begins to seize assets, for instance, bank levy. In most cases, it is difficult to stop wage garnishment once it begins, and until back taxes are paid, it remains. Alternatively however, a release may be negotiated.

The total amount of money the IRS can take from you with a wage garnishment is based on several factors, including your income, the total amount due, your marital status and number of dependents, among other factors. The unfortunate point about wage garnishment is that most taxpayers wait until their wages are garnished before they seek the help of a tax attorney.

You can stop wage garnishment, and this is where we help you. Our Los Angeles tax attorneys specialize in negotiating with the IRS to release wage garnishments. Of course for this particular scenario, we cannot guarantee that a release can be negotiated, we can say that the IRS will frequently release a wage garnishment in two cases:

• If you pay back all of the money that the taxpayer owes;
• If work out an Offer in Compromise or Install Agreement with the IRS agent.

The second way is the preferred method because most of the taxpayers involved in this type of situation don't have the funds available to pay it off.

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