What do famous people like Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Randy Quaid, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dustin Diamond; rappers and hip hop artists Diddy, Flavor Flav, DMX, and M.C. Hammer; reality star and bounty hunter ‘Dog’ Chapman; pugilists Julio Caesar Chavez and Floyd Mayweather; ACORN, American Legion, porn film maker Joe Francis, Olympic champion Michael Phelps, and Anna Nicole Smith all have in common? Answer: they’ve all made the papers recently by being hit with the feared IRS tax lien.
I just finished going over the web to come across all these well-known people, and in between the articles describing their income tax problems I also came across a bunch of accountants and tax attorneys posting to their blogs info telling everyone that if the Internal Revenue Service files a lien against you we should all be terrified; very anxious. Well, they didn’t say it like that precisely, mostly they played on the anxiety most people have about dealing with the IRS. They also played off the harmful consequence that a Federal tax lien can have on your credit. Most importantly these CPAs and tax attorneys are telling us all that if we have an Federal tax lien we most unquestionably should seek out expert assistance; if at all possible from them.
Over the last ten to fifteen years or so, I’ve been researching the concern of Federal tax lien elimination and have revealed some legal principles that should provide you a rationale to calm down and put these fears away.
First of all, I want to bring to your rememberance that the Scriptures tell us that perfect love casts out fear. See 1 John 4:18. If you feel afraid, based on this Scripture, it is time to focus on the perfecting of your love. Also, the Certified Public Accountants and tax lawyers who try to use your fear to get your business need to study Isaiah 8:12; the Scriptures tell us there that we are not to make others in fear or in dread.
Secondly, I wanted to make you conscious that Congress has put some tremendous tools at our disposal for getting Federal tax liens removed, without paying the Federal government money that I did not see a single CPA or tax attorney discuss in all of the blog posts I reviewed.
I was looking atTitle 26 statutes one day and came across 26 USC § 6323(j). This is the very last of many subsections and seems to be buried at the bottom on purpose. (j)(1) of that section starts out, “The Secretary may withdraw a notice of a lien filed under this section…” Ah ha! This is getting my attention and it should yours as well. Subsection (j)(1)(A) continues by explaining when the notice of lien can be withdrawn, when the filing of such notice was not in accordance with administrative procedures of the Secretary.
With respect to your credit, section (j)(2) provides that if you ask them too, the Secretary shall punctually make reasonable efforts to notify credit reporting agencies, financial institutions or creditors whose name and address you specify of the withdrawal of such notice.
So, what you need to know is how the IRS failed to follow their administrative procedures and I show you what those are in my IRS lien removal video and in my Federal tax lien removal website. I learned about these defects in their procedures by reading Treasury Inspector General Audit Reports. Secondly, you need to know how to apply some leverage to force the IRS to act on the statute on your behalf. I have some good news for you on that as well.
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