The IRS will give a Taxpayer a thirty day grace period from the date of the notice before the levy goes into effect. During this period a taxpayer has the right to request a  hearing to discuss the tax problem that caused the IRS to issue the notice.

To stop (delay) the wage levy you should file IRS form 12153 and request a collection due process hearing.  The form is self-explanatory.

IRS Form 12153

In the event that you did not receive a notice and your wages are on the verge of being garnished, the next link may be helpful.

Stop IRS Wage Garnishment

You have several options:

Your first option is to do absolutely nothing and watch Uncle Sam take a bite out of every paycheck.

The second option is to negotiate with the IRS to pay, so that your wages will not be garnished. The IRS can’t wait to hear from you. They have been trying to get in touch with you via U.S. mail, however since this was unsuccessful they decided to get your attention by garnishing your wages.

If you decide to negotiate on your own with the IRS simply call collections at 1-800-929-7650. Tell the IRS you owe money and you agree to pay what you owe.  

The IRS will halt your wage garnishment and give you about thirty days to file all missing tax returns and make arrangements to pay monthly installments towards your obligation.

Another option is to hire a CPA to handle this for you or even contact us. A CPA may be able to reduce your tax liability and penalties.

THE IRS HAS A TENDENCY TO OVERESTIMATE WHAT THEY CLAIM A TAXPAYER OWEs SO IT IS ALWAYS WORTH IT TO SEEK THE OPINION OF A CPA

• Home buyer tax credit (up to $8,000.00) has been expanded and extended. Individuals who previously owned a home and lived in it for five out of six years are now eligible for up to $6,500.00 tax credit. The credit is available for contracts signed between January 1, 2009 and April 30^th 2010.

• The educator expense deduction ($250.00) will be eliminated beginning with the 2010 tax year.

• Taxpayers who itemize will no longer have the option to claim state and local sales tax as a deduction beginning with the 2010 tax year (due April 15, 2011).

• Section 179 accelerated depreciation for equipment purchased in 2010 has been reduced from $250,000.00 to $135,000.00.

• There is no estate tax for 2010. This is the best year to “kick the bucket” if you want to avoid estate tax.

 

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ANTONIO MILLIGE ADAMS, 37, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Thomas W. Thrash, Jr. on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States by assisting others in filing false claims for income tax refunds with the Internal Revenue Service.

United States Attorney David E. Nahmias said of the case, “Dishonest tax return preparers who concoct schemes to steal public money face federal prosecution and federal prison. The defendant in this case not only filed fraudulent returns and participated in a wide-ranging scheme to assist others in doing the same, but also acted as the ‘enforcer’ in the scheme, using threats and intimidation to collect unlawful ‘fees’ from those who were enlisted to file false returns.”

IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Reginael McDaniel said, “IRS Criminal Investigation currently stops the payment of $1 billion in fraudulent refunds each year, as unfortunately, there are individuals who are relentless in trying to defeat the integrity of our nation’s tax system. IRS Criminal Investigation will continue to aggressively pursue the investigation of these individuals to stop taxpayer money from getting into the hands of criminals.”

ADAMS was sentenced to 4 years, 3 months in federal prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $117,368.57 in restitution; specifically, $69,752.94 to the IRS and $47,615.63 to the victim bank, Santa Barbara Bank & Trust.
ADAMS pleaded guilty to the charges on August 6, 2008.

According to United States Attorney Nahmias and the information presented in court: Beginning in January 2002 and continuing through August 2004, ADAMS conspired with co-defendant MARLA NICOLE WELLS and others to electronically file tax returns for dozens of individuals, claiming refunds to which they were not entitled.
The total losses resulting from the conspiracy exceeded $222,597. A dozen or more fraudulent returns claiming a total of $60,504 in refunds were filed but not paid, as the investigation had uncovered the scheme and the IRS was able to stop the refund payments.

ADAMS and WELLS enlisted the assistance of recruiters to find people who were willing to file fraudulent tax returns, paying the recruiters a small fee. Once found, WELLS, often accompanied by ADAMS, provided the “filer” with a false W-2 that she created listing employers for whom the individuals filing the fraudulent tax returns had never worked. To ensure that they received their fee plus a portion of the fraudulent
return (which could be as much as half the refund), ADAMS and WELLS directed the filers to seek refund anticipation loans. ADAMS and WELLS occasionally accompanied the filers to the bank to get the money or held their identification until they returned with the money. ADAMS acted as WELLS’ “enforcer,” using threats and intimidation to ensure that the filers paid them for their fraudulent tax services. Several filers witnessed ADAMS carrying a firearm when accompanying them to get paid. The filers were often unemployed or had very low income.

After ADAMS learned of the charges against him in November 2006, ADAMS fled the State of Georgia in an attempt to avoid arrest. He traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada and Jacksonville, Florida, before returning to Georgia, where he was arrested on March 6, 2008, by the United States Marshals Service. Because of his extensive prior criminal history, including prior convictions for aggravated assault, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and various drug offenses, ADAMS faced a higher sentence by the court.

WELLS was convicted of the same conspiracy charges on June 27, 2007, and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on September 26, 2007.

Amando Santos, a Burlington Township tax preparer, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay back taxes, interest and penalties totaling $149,921. Santos pleaded guilty on March 6, 2008, to a one count Information that charged him with preparation of fraudulent tax returns. At his plea hearing, Santos stated that from 2001 to 2004, he operated a tax preparation business called “APS Income Tax Service” from his residence. As part of the business, Santos admitted that he prepared U.S. individual income tax returns for client taxpayers which included false or altered information, such as inflated itemized deductions and false or overstated losses and expenses, to either reduce the taxes owed by his clients or obtain larger refunds for his clients. Santos admitted that between April 2002 and April 2004, he prepared at least 43 fraudulent tax returns.

A former information technology contractor for the City of Newark was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining Cisco Systems, Inc. replacement computer parts which he resold, netting him millions of dollars, and for tax evasion, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced.

U.S. District Judge Katharine S. Hayden also ordered Michael Kyereme, a/k/a “Michael Appiahkyeremeh,” 41, of Piscataway to pay $3,689,280 in restitution to Cisco. Kyereme remains under home confinement with electronic monitoring pending his assignment to a federal prison.

Kyereme pleaded guilty on July 2 to a two-count Information charging mail fraud and tax evasion, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah J. Gannett.

Kyereme was arrested on March 2, 2007, when Special Agents of the FBI searched his home and car and recovered more than $3 million in Cisco-brand components that he had ordered on behalf of the City of Newark.

Cisco reported the fraud to the U.S. Attorney’s Office and has cooperated throughout the investigation.

According to the Information to which he pleaded guilty, Kyereme, an independent contractor hired to provide information technology support to Newark, was responsible for assisting Newark employees when computer problems arose that required technical support. If it was determined that a computer-related problem could not be solved without outside assistance or a replacement part, Kyereme was authorized to contact Cisco Systems, Inc. for technical assistance and, if necessary, to request replacement parts.

Kyereme stated that he understood that the City of Newark maintained service contracts with Cisco under which Cisco was required to replace inoperable or defective Cisco parts with new or refurbished parts. Newark was then required to return the non-working parts to Cisco within 10 days of receiving the replacement parts.

Kyereme admitted that between about Aug. 28, 2002, and about March 2, 2007, he fraudulently requested and received Cisco replacement parts, after falsely claiming that certain components in Newark’s computer system had failed. Kyereme then resold them to a third party in California and kept the proceeds.

Kyereme did not dispute that on or about Nov. 7, 2006, he requested a replacement part for a one-port optical card, falsely claiming that the part in Newark’s computer system was not responding to his trouble-shooting efforts.

According to the Information, Cisco then sent Kyereme via Federal Express a replacement part of the exact type alleged to be inoperable – a working one-port optical card, with a commercial value of approximately $260,000 – and Kyereme returned a different part – an eight-port adaptor worth approximately $2,000.

According to the Information, Kyereme caused a loss to Cisco of approximately $4,179,667 by fraudulently requesting the replacement parts. He admitted that he resold the replacement parts to a third party and deposited the corporate checks he received as payment for the Cisco parts into his personal bank accounts.

Kyereme further admitted that on or about April 15, 2007, he filed a fraudulent personal tax return, with the IRS, which stated that his taxable income for the calendar year 2006 was approximately $81,494 and claiming a refund of approximately $4,034 was due to him.

In fact, Kyereme admitted, that tax return failed to include approximately $1,242,483 in additional taxable income Kyereme received as a result of the checks he received from the third party which he caused to be cashed during 2006. He admitted that an additional tax of approximately $429,826 was due the United States.

Kyereme also admitted that he filed with personal income tax returns with the IRS for 2003, 2004 and 2005, which understated the amount of taxable income he received for those calendar years. Kyereme admitted that for tax years 2003 through 2006, a total additional tax of approximately $669,234 was due the United States.

Richard Stadtmauer, former second-in-command at the Kushner Companies, was sentenced to 38 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine and costs of the prosecution totaling approximately $20,000.  Stadtmauer was convicted in June 2008 of participating in a criminal conspiracy spanning the years 1997 to 2003, as well as eight counts of aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns. According to the evidence introduced at trial, Stadtmauer and other co-conspirators created false partnership tax returns for the real estate properties controlled by the Kushner Companies. These returns intentionally mischaracterized more than $6 million worth of charitable and political contributions, capital expenditures, and gift-and-entertainment charges as fully deductible business expenses. The returns also falsely characterized as business expenses, expenditures that in fact were not related to the properties at all, including expenditures made by Kushner and Stadtmauer personally. The charged co-conspirators in the scheme – all of whom have pleaded guilty over the last several years – included Charles Kushner, former Kushner Companies Chief Financial Officers Marci Plotkin and Scott Zecher, and Stanley Bekritsky, a former tax partner at the accounting firm of Schonbraun Safris McCann & Bekritsky, which during the time of the conspiracy served as the Kushner Companies’ outside accountants. Kushner was sentenced on March 4, 2005, to 24 months in prison; Marci Plotkin, Stanley Bekritsky, and Scott Zecher have not been sentenced yet.