How can I get the IRS out of my life after an LLc bankruptcy?
We went under. There are no offshore accounts or hidden assets. Everything was confiscated including personal property, even though we were an LLC business.
I can accept my mistakes and feel I’ve paid my debt to the bankruptcy courts. What I can’t fathom is this relentless pursuit by the IRS. How can any entity that isn’t even a part of our federal government wield so much power over the fate of the average American citizen. These people are even above our bankruptcy laws.
Am I unofficially indentured? Is it possible to end this harrassment?
June 25th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Having represented a few people in dealing with the IRS, sometimes they just keep coming and you can’t get rid of them. I had one client that bought a business. The former owner had underpaid employer taxes. She just went ahead and paid what was due, it was cheaper that way. A couple of years later they came after her for the same thing. She sent them all the info that she had paid before and documented it. They continued to harass her as tho’ she had sent in nothing. It was cheaper to just pay it again with more interest. A couple of years later they came after her again. How can anyone that checks bookkeeping be so inept at their bookkeeping and so vindictive. They are so incompetent and absolute idiots. I guess those that can do and those that can’t go to work for the IRS.
June 27th, 2009 at 11:49 am
I have read case after case that they ignore what the courts say.
June 28th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Federal Tax obligations are do not dissappear in Bankruptcy. Bankruptcy only holds off collections by the IRS until the Bankruptcy is discharged.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Your rant provides no details about your situation so it’s not possible to answer your question.
No idea where you get the idea that the IRS isn’t part of the Federal government. Sounds like you’ve been listening to too many Tax Kooks.
If you had a tax debt prior to the BK filing it’s not likely that the debt was cleared through BK. Most tax debts cannot be cleared through BK.
July 1st, 2009 at 11:21 am
If you owed taxes, bankruptcy does not eliminate the taxes. What you could do is try 2 options, offer in compromise (which is where you settle your debt for less than 100%), or installment agreement (where you pay off the debt over time). I’ve attached a link to bankruptcy and tax effect, offer in compromise, and installment agreement.
I’ve attached an irs publication to bankruptcy and tax effect.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:54 am
IRS is a branch of the Department of Treasury a federal government agency. Bankruptcy may discharge creditors, but not your IRS debts. Stop trying to dodge them, contact them and you and the other members need to agree to some type of settlement and payment arrangements. Good Luck!