Beverly Hills Offers in Compromise Lawyer
You may owe so much to the Internal Revenue Service that you can't pay it all. In that case, you can make an Offer in Compromise for tax debt relief.
An Offer in Compromise with the IRS can resolve your debt for less than you owe.
Patrick E. McGinnis is a skilled tax lawyer who negotiates Offers in Compromise. He is a former IRS chief counsel, and serves tax defense clients throughout Southern California. He has 33 years of experience, and is rated AV under Martindale-Hubbell's rating system - highest in legal ability and general ethical standards.*
Offers in Compromise-2 approaches
- We submit an Offer in Compromise to the IRS and it is assigned to a revenue officer.
Or
- We file the Offer in Compromise with the Appeals Division in a Collection Due Process Hearing.
The hearing will usually be better for you. They approve a lot of Offers in Compromise. They're more realistic and they're cheaper.
It may seem illogical to go to the Appeals Division with Offers in Compromise rather than starting with a revenue officer. But there's a big difference between the two:
The revenue officers are there to collect money. They're not there to be your friend, no matter how polite they may be while dealing with you.
Appeal officers are an independent arm of the IRS. They're not there to collect money.
The hearing process
When you get a notice for a due process hearing, we file a request for a hearing, and two or three months later you get a hearing-a conference-with the Appeals Division.
If negotiation at the due process hearing does not resolve it, you can go to the Tax Court, and contest the collection determination.
The ideal outcome: You don't owe any money.
The next best outcome: you owe money, and you submit an Offer in Compromise, for less than the amount the IRS says you owe.
The entire Offer in Compromise process takes about nine months.
State Agency Offers in Compromise
Each state agency including, the California Employment Development Department (EDD), the California State Board of Equalization (SBE) and the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) have their own form and agency approval guidelines for Offers in Compromise. Contact an attorney who understands these procedures and can guide you through the process. Call Patrick McGinnis.
