Emergency Tax Help - Before You Hire Anybody.
Understand the notice, know your deadlines, and explore your options before you pay a resolution company.
GET EMERGENCY TAX HELPTriage
First: What Happened?
You do not need to know the tax terminology. Start with what is happening right now.
I Received an IRS Final Notice or Letter 11
The IRS is warning you that enforced collection may be coming.
SHOW ME WHAT TO DOMy Bank Account Was Levied or Frozen
Money has been taken or restricted and you need to understand what can happen next.
I NEED HELP WITH A BANK LEVYMy Wages Are Being Garnished
Your employer received paperwork or money is already coming out of your paycheck.
I NEED HELP WITH A WAGE GARNISHMENTI Received a California FTB Notice or Levy
California collection problems can move quickly.
I NEED FTB HELPI Have IRS Letters, But I Do Not Know What They Mean
That is okay. Upload what you received and have your situation professionally reviewed.
You May Not Need to Hire a Tax-Resolution Company.
Yes. A tax-resolution professional is telling you that. There is a reason.
I have had taxpayers come to me convinced they needed to spend thousands of dollars hiring someone to fight the IRS. I have reviewed their situation and told them: "You do not need to hire me for this."
They needed information. They needed a plan. Sometimes they needed to make the right phone call, submit the right information, or simply understand what the IRS was asking them to do.
I have also looked at other cases and said: "No. I would not try to handle this one yourself."
The difference is not how scared you are. The difference is what is actually happening in your case.
That is why Tax Debt Emergency Room™ exists. Before you buy expensive representation, get clarity.
Your Options
Two Ways to Get Help
Option 1
Emergency Action Kit
$79
"Show me what to do."
If you received one of the tax notices covered by an Emergency Action Kit and want to understand the problem yourself first, start here. You will get plain-English guidance designed to help you understand:
- What the notice means
- Why you received it
- What parts of the notice matter
- What deadlines you need to pay attention to
- What you should gather before taking action
- What mistakes to avoid
- Questions you may need to ask
- When handling it yourself may be reasonable
- When I would stop and get professional help
No giant tax course. No 200 pages of tax theory. Just what you need to understand the emergency in front of you.
Current Emergency Kit: IRS Letter 11 / Final Notice Emergency Action Kit — $79
Option 2
Tax Debt Triage Review™
$297
"Look at MY paperwork and tell me what you think I should do."
Maybe you do not want another video. You want a tax professional to look at the actual IRS or FTB documents sitting in front of you. That is what the Tax Debt Triage Review is for.
Before our meeting, you will securely upload the notices and documents you received and complete a short questionnaire about your tax situation. I will review that information before we speak. Then we will meet for approximately 25-30 minutes to discuss:
WHAT IS HAPPENING
What the documents appear to say and where you currently stand.
HOW SERIOUS IT IS
What concerns me, what does not, and what may require immediate attention.
YOUR OPTIONS
The reasonable paths I see based on the information available.
WHAT I WOULD DO NEXT
A clear next move.
And sometimes that recommendation will be: "You can probably handle this yourself." If that is what I believe, I will tell you. If I believe the situation needs a deeper IRS investigation or professional representation, I will tell you that too.
If you choose to engage Tax Debt Consultants for a qualifying Full Triage engagement within 30 days, your $297 review fee may be applied toward that engagement.
This Is Not a Free Tax-Relief Sales Call.
There is an important difference. A free consultation often exists to answer one question: "Can this person be sold a tax-resolution service?" That is not what you are purchasing here. The Tax Debt Triage Review is a paid professional review. You are paying for an informed opinion about your situation. You do not have to hire us afterward. There is no requirement that the answer result in a larger engagement.
The goal is simple: Know what you are dealing with before you make an expensive decision.
TRIAGE → STABILIZE → RESCUE
Tax problems should be handled in the right order.
1
Triage
First, determine what is actually happening. What do you owe? What years are involved? Are all required returns filed? What notices have been issued? Has collection activity started? What deadlines exist? You cannot intelligently solve a tax problem until you know what the problem actually is.
2
Stabilize
If something urgent is happening, deal with the immediate threat: a levy, wage garnishment, deadline, Revenue Officer, or another collection action that cannot simply sit on the kitchen counter for another month.
3
Rescue
Only after the case is understood do we determine the long-term resolution. That might involve an installment agreement, hardship status, an Offer in Compromise, another resolution strategy, or something much simpler.
Diagnosis comes before prescription.
When I Would Be Careful About Handling It Yourself
- —Active bank levies
- —Wage garnishments
- —Multiple years of unfiled returns
- —Large tax liabilities
- —Business or payroll tax problems
- —Revenue Officer involvement
- —Repeated broken agreements
- —Significant assets at risk
- —Disputes over what you actually owe
- —Multiple taxing agencies
- —A situation you simply do not understand
That does not automatically mean you need to hire us. It means you should not make important decisions blindly.
Why Listen to Carlos?
I am Carlos Samaniego, Enrolled Agent and founder of Tax Debt Consultants. I work with taxpayers dealing with IRS and California collection problems. But I also understand what it is like to be the taxpayer on the other side of the table. That is part of why my approach starts differently.
I do not believe the first question should be: "How much can we charge this person?" The first question should be: "What is actually happening?" Then we figure out the right next move.
Carlos Samaniego, EA — Founder, Tax Debt Consultants
Still Not Sure Where To Start?
You do not have to diagnose your own tax problem before asking for help.
If you recognize the notice and want to understand it yourself: Start with the $79 Emergency Action Kit.
SHOW ME THE EMERGENCY ACTION KITIf you want a professional to review the paperwork you actually received: Book the $297 Tax Debt Triage Review.
REVIEW MY DOCUMENTSDo Not Ignore It. Do Not Panic. Understand It.
The worst move is often doing nothing because you are afraid of making the wrong move. You do not have to commit to thousands of dollars in professional representation just to get some clarity. Start with the problem sitting in front of you.
Tax Debt Emergency Room™ — Emergency Tax Help - Before You Hire Anybody.
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