Todd Courser and Associates

This is Todd Courser and we have talked about the income tax return. I am an attorney in Lapeer, Michigan. I do tax resolution work resolving problems with the Internal Revenue Service and making a series of videos just to educate people on what I found from past experience. You really should get good legal counsel. These videos really are just to inform people you should attorney who actually works will work with Internal Revenue Service. To resolve your tax problems, there are very few that do it and of the crowd  there are even less good at it .

Once we have a dispute, most returns are fixed through the amended process. If you have issues beyond this, meaning the dispute is greater and you are not able to serve corrected, and it is not going anywhere, we are going to talk about what that looks like. Now this is in the simplified area of the CP2000. If you are not able to do the amount of return and its rejected or something like that, now you are dealing with calling Internal Revenue Services over the phone. Or you are going to do an in-person. At your in person meeting, you are going to try and resolve the issues related to the dispute.

Now this deals with just the simple administrative steps to try and resolve your problems. In the next the next video we are going to talk about audit and appeals. Then we are going to deal with collections, which everybody dreads. I guess everything about the Internal Revenue Services everybody dreads, but we will try and do a good job and correcting some of the issues for people. They can really advocate for themselves better and also when they are speak to attorney in regards to their problems they have a better understanding of the process involved.

My name is Todd Courser. I do tax resolution work here in Michigan. I am an attorney and an accountant and have been doing IRS resolution work and also state of issue resolution work for many years. Back probably 18 or 19 years of resolving internal revenue services problems. Inside of this we are looking at we have talked about the idea of the IRS lets you know and they have identified that there are issues with the returning usually through the third party verification and so at that point you are either paying and you might dispute or agree but is just isn’t worth fighting. You write a cheque to pay one of the ways to do that is to of course to write a cheque or it’s to do an instalment agreement. We left that part out, but those are your two options.

Basically you pay whatever you owe. If you are not going to pay it, then you are disputing it.  This is always of course looking at the the fact that you owe and you are disputing it. Essentially at that point you are going to need to decide how exactly to do that if you simply can provide the evidence of course to as a basis to your dispute then provide the evidence and send it back and whatever fashion or form that is required to be able to document that in reality the Internal Revenue Service’s got this wrong when they say that you owe.

Generally that’s done on what they call 1040X it’s a filling an amended return. It’s an amended return to your 1040. You are going to amend your personal return and correct the issues. That’s the way that happens most things will get resolved one either one you will just pay it in cheque form some people won’t be able to do that they will put in place an instalment agreement. Some will choose to dispute, low level dispute they will simply provide the evidence and do 1040 and they will correct the return ok. We are going to talk about what happens when that isn’t possible or there is some other issues involved to it in the next video.

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If you have an IRS issue, you have a few ways to resolve it. For the most part, 4 out of 5 IRS issues that you have, the IRS is notifying you that you have a problem. They usually do that in order to just label it the CP2000 for administrative purposes. I am not going to  so not going to spend a lot of time on this, but essentially this is the administrative letter to let you know that there is a problem with your return, either it is to the positive or negative. If it positive we really don’t worry about it. If it is to the negative, obviously that becomes an issue.

What I am going to do here is really kind of talk about the various parts. You have the CP2000 so we are just going to talk about the “pay moment.” Essentially they come in and they say that there is a negative amount and you owe it. So from there you have to determine what you are going to…

1. Simply pay it. You may really be in dispute meaning you don’t like the number they give you or you may agree. At that point you are determining that the best course of action for you is to pay. It might be because of the cost of fighting it is too high. It may be that your documentation is poor. It may be because the time and money in dealing with it just isn’t worth the effort. Consider the energy it will take to resist the collections or the effort to defend yourself — you might just pay.
2. The other way is to decide to dispute it. If you are going to dispute it, you have to bring forward your evidence.

The CP2000 is generally triggered from third party verification. A third party verification that tells the IRS that there is an issue.