Irs Innocent Spouse Tax Relief

Attorney Robert Schaller and the Schaller Law Firm offer IRS Innocent Spouse Tax Relief to tax professionals. This book is a scholarly treatise on the IRS program that relieves a requesting spouse (or former spouse) from joint and several tax liability. Innocent spouse relief is offered on equitable grounds or when the tax is attributable to a non-requesting spouse’s bad behavior – including fraud, income concealment, income misstatement, and unwarranted expense deductions or tax credits. This book offers a deep dive into the U.S. Tax Code, Treasury regulations, court opinions, the Internal Revenue Manual, and IRS Revenue Procedures that comprise the IRS’ Innocent Spouse Tax Relief program. This is a resource book for tax professionals. Congress authorized relief to the “innocent” spouse who would otherwise be inequitably harmed by the non-requesting spouse. The three types of relief from joint and several tax liability are analyzed with relevant citations to the U.S. Tax Code, Treasury regulations, court opinions, the Internal Revenue Manual, and IRS Revenue Procedures. A separate discussion is presented for Innocent Spouse Relief, Separation of Liability Relief, and Equitable Relief, including a line-by-line analysis of IRS Form 8857, Request for Innocent Spouse Relief. An 8-page Table of Contents, a 19-page Table of Authorities, and a 9-page Index aides a tax professional’s scholarly understanding. The book also explores premature and untimely relief claims, appellate review of rejected claims, and refund claims after relief is granted. IRS Innocent Spouse Tax Relief also explores the IRS collection process with a discussion of IRS levies, tax liens, installment agreements, the offer in compromise program, and currently not collectible status. Finally, powers of attorney and third-party authorizations are examined, including a line-by-line analysis of IRS Form 2848, Power of Attorney and IRS Form 8821, Tax Information Authorization.

By law, married persons who file joint tax returns are each fully responsible for the accuracy of the tax return and for the full tax liability. This is true even though only one taxpayer may have earned the wages or income shown on the tax return. Under the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) Innocent Spouse Program, IRS can relieve taxpayers of tax debts on the basis of equity considerations, such as not knowing that their spouse failed to pay taxes due. Since passage of the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act (Restructuring Act) of 1998, IRS has received thousands of requests from taxpayers for innocent spouse relief. IRSs inability to provide timely responses to such requests has generated concerns among taxpayers, Congress, and other stakeholders. It took IRS about a year, on average, to completely process an innocent spouse case in fiscal year 2001.

In straightforward language, the new second edition of A Practitioner s Guide to Innocent Spouse Relief takes you step-by-step through the Innocent Spouse claim process, from information gathering, to administrative proceedings, to determination, to trial, and to refund relief."

E Z IRS tells how to take advantage of money-saving tax tips and loopholes in an easy-to-understand forty-seven-chapter tax reference manual. The chapters in the book give step-by-step instructions to fix your IRS problems. The author is a retired IRS agent, group manager, Chicago civil fraud coordinator, and IRS instructor. E Z IRS covers all the major types of tax relief from IRS debt. This includes the IRS Fresh Start Program, bankruptcy, offers in compromise, innocent spouse, and how to deal with the IRS Collection Division. You can save up to 85 percent on the Fresh Start Program and 100 percent on bankruptcy. The book also covers criminal fraud, failure to file cases, your chances of going to jail, and how the IRS catches tax cheats. After reading this book, you will learn how to navigate the IRS and take advantage of all the free help and information on IRS. gov.

Contains the report of a U.S. Treasury Dept. study of issues relating to joint income tax returns. Discusses the background & present law concerning joint & several liability as it relates to joint filing for married taxpayers, collecting unpaid tax, & relief provisions. Presents an overview of current IRS administration of joint returns. Examines proposals to replace or reform the joint & several liability standard & discusses community property issues & reform of the innocent spouse provisions.