Liens, levies and wage garnishments are the most aggressive techniques employed by tax agencies to collect outstanding tax liabilities. While a lien is a claim against one or more of a taxpayer’s assets, a levy is the actual seizure of those assets. A wage garnishment is a specific type of levy whereby the IRS or State Tax Agency deducts a predetermined amount of a taxpayer’s wages to pay down a tax debt.
Although liens, levies and wage garnishments can be complicated to remove, the CPAs and tax professionals at BCH Consulting, Inc. are usually able to halt these aggressive actions by negotiating directly with the collecting tax agency on the taxpayer’s behalf. By demonstrating that a comprehensive resolution plan is being worked out to address or eliminate the tax liability, they are able to get the collection activity stopped while the details are worked out.