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Protecting Businesses from Forced Closure | Negotiating Levy Releases
Offering Committed Protection | Recent Abatement Success Stories
Recent Formalized Installment Agreements | Creative Settlements
Offering Committed Protection
- The owners of a restaurant in Saratoga, Wyoming hired Clear Creek Consulting to negotiate an affordable payment that would also prevent enforced collection action against their restaurant for $9,000 in past due sales tax owed to the state. After numerous attempts to get anyone to respond to our request for contact at the Department of Revenue, the Associate assigned to this case proposed an Installment Agreement to the general department. The state responded by serving our clients with court documents indicating that the debt was going to be civilly collected. After the state checked to see if in fact our Associate was an attorney in good standing in the state of Colorado, the state attorney agreed that a $300 Installment Agreement would be a great payment plan amount. This $300 per month payment was the exact amount the Department of Revenue had rejected earlier that day! Our client is now free from enforced collection.
- The owner of a cleaning service company located in Georgetown, Texas hired Clear Creek Consulting to manage a liability of approximately $46,000 owed to the IRS. Because our client owns multiple homes, the Revenue Officer demanded that our client take out equity from his homes to pay down the liability, however, our client wanted to make monthly payments. In doing so, the Associate assigned to this case proposed an Installment Agreement, however, the Revenue Officer replied by levying all of our client’s accounts receivables, and his business and personal bank accounts. After a few calls to the Revenue Officer’s supervisor, we negotiated the release of all the levies, and submitted a new Installment Agreement.
- A courier business in Cedar Rapids, Iowa hired Clear Creek Consulting to protect him from losing his home to the Internal Revenue Service after he lost nearly everything to his former business partner. The Associate assigned to this case initially negotiated that our client should be put in Status 53 so as to protect him from enforced collection while we analyzed the business and uncovered which resolution strategy would be best for our client. At issue was the fact that our client is a disabled veteran who had significant equity in his home, but if refinanced, he would not be able to make the new mortgage payments and would have consequently had to have moved. In the end we submitted and negotiated an Offer in Compromise for $1,875 on a total liability of $75,000 and our client was able to keep his home and the equity in it.
- Just prior to retaining Clear Creek Consulting, an Illinois marine towing company was experiencing enforced collection from the IRS and their bank was threatening to call a loan due to an IRS tax lien which would have resulted in the immediate liquidation of this family-owned business. Within weeks of representation the client was free from these stresses as we managed to negotiate an affordable payment plan with the IRS, and the State which satiated the bank’s concern and consequently did not call the outstanding loan. This client owes approximately $205,000 to the IRS and $12,000 to the State of Illinois.
- When retained by a New Jersey Environmental Clean Up Company, the assigned Revenue Officer was in the process of assessing the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty against the willful and responsible party associated with a $40,000 federal tax liability. Due to poor health, the client did not want her husband to know of this tax issue which would have come to his attention as soon as federal notices would begin arriving at their private residence. To protect the health of our client’s husband, the Clear Creek Consulting Associate successfully negotiated that the government not assess the Penalty in addition to negotiating an affordable monthly Installment Agreement.
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