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When tax debt builds up, the IRS can file liens, levy bank accounts and garnish wages. Our advisors take over contact with the IRS, file missing returns and negotiate a resolution you can afford.
Serving United States, Virginia, Washington, DC, Maryland.
What we handle
The first step is usually getting compliant: filing missing returns and stopping new balances. Then we choose the right resolution: a streamlined or non-streamlined installment agreement under section 6159, an offer in compromise under section 7122 when you cannot pay in full, currently not collectible status, or penalty abatement for first-time or reasonable cause relief.
If the IRS has issued a final notice of intent to levy or filed a lien, you have 30 days to request a Collection Due Process hearing under sections 6320 and 6330, which pauses levies and lets you propose alternatives. For businesses with unpaid payroll taxes, we also defend owners and officers against the trust fund recovery penalty.
Speak with an advisorWhere we help
A 30-day window to request a Collection Due Process hearing after a lien or final levy notice.
The IRS may accept less than full payment based on doubt as to collectibility or liability.
Innocent spouse relief from tax on a joint return caused by the other spouse.
Failure-to-file and failure-to-pay penalties are often removed for taxpayers with a clean prior record.
Our approach
A senior advisor reviews your facts and documents.
Scope, fees and timeline in an engagement letter.
Returns, elections and forms prepared and reviewed.
IRS contact and planning all year.
Questions
If your question isn't here, call (703) 880-8412 and you'll reach a person.
Yes, after notice and the chance for a hearing. Acting quickly on a final notice of intent to levy preserves your appeal rights.
Only when the offer equals or exceeds what the IRS calculates it could collect from your assets and future income. We calculate that figure before recommending an offer.
The IRS generally expects the last six years filed. We prepare them, often reducing the balance compared with IRS substitute returns.
Often. First-time abatement and reasonable cause can remove many penalties, and interest on removed penalties goes with them.
Latest updates
Authorized representatives can now make balance-due, amended return, extension, proposed assessment and federal tax deposit payments for business clients online. Appropriate authorization for the client and tax matter is required.
Source: IRS (IR-2026-134)
For 2027 the joint-return standard deduction rises to $33,200, the estate tax basic exclusion to $15,480,000, the annual gift exclusion to $20,000 and the Section 179 expensing limit to $2,640,000. Our advisors recommend revisiting year-end gifting and equipment purchase plans with these figures in mind.
Source: IRS (IR-2026-133)
All 6,576 nominated census tracts, including 2,594 rural tracts eligible for enhanced benefits, become Opportunity Zones on January 1, 2027 for ten years. Investors with capital gains should review the new map before committing funds.
Source: IRS (IR-2026-132)
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