Penalty Abatement
In many tax debt cases the Penalty and Interest portion of the tax debt is quite significant. If you are facing penalties for not filing or paying your taxes on time, you may be able to get those penalties removed (or even get past penalties and interest refunded) through penalty abatement or penalty adjustment. Abatement refers to eliminating an assessed tax liability and an adjustment references reducing or altering an assessed tax liability.
IRS Penalty Abatement Reasonable Cause Letter
If there is a ‘reasonable cause’ for abatement or adjustment, the IRS may be willing to review the penalties which created a tax liability. Reasonable cause can include:
- Wrong mailing address
- A death or illness in the family
- An error caused by an IRS employee
- Natural disaster like an earthquake, flood, or other catastrophe
About one-third of tax penalties are eventually removed by the IRS through successful tax resolution. To request that a tax penalty be removed or refunded you need to fill out IRS Form 843. This form of tax resolution is called a “Claim for Refund and Request for Abatement.”
We can work with you to make payment arrangements that the IRS will allow. If there were circumstances beyond your control that prevented you from paying your tax debt and led to delinquency, we can challenge the penalties and interest that have built up. Relief from penalties falls into four separate categories: Reasonable Cause, Statutory Exceptions, Administrative Waivers, and Correction in Service Error.
Penalty Abatement can be the best solution in resolving IRS Tax Debt, and we can help you determine if this may an option for you.