Employers have until January 31 to send out W-2 forms. When that date passes and nothing shows up in the mail or the mailbox app, most people assume they are simply stuck waiting on a company that is slow, disorganized, or gone out of business. They are not stuck. But the fix is not automatic,…
The IRS asks taxpayers to submit an application for a certificate of discharge at least 45 days before the closing date on the property involved. That single rule catches more people off guard than almost anything else about Form 14135, because most people do not learn a discharge exists until a closing is already scheduled…
The IRS gives you 30 days to request a Collection Due Process hearing after certain notices. Miss it by a day or by six months, and you still have an option. It looks different than the one you had on day 29. That option is called an equivalent hearing, and most people only learn it…
Under Internal Revenue Code section 6502, a federal tax lien does not last forever. It runs alongside the IRS’s authority to collect the underlying tax debt, and that authority expires ten years from the date the IRS assessed the tax, unless something along the way pauses the clock. When that ten-year window closes, called the…
Form 668-D is the one-page notice that actually stops an IRS wage garnishment. It is titled Release of Levy/Release of Property from Levy, and it is the only document that does the job. A letter approving a payment plan does not stop the withholding by itself, and a verbal promise from an IRS agent on…
