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IRS Tax Resolution
If you are dealing with IRS notices, back taxes, or unfiled returns, ignoring the problem usually makes it worse. This practice resolves IRS issues methodically and professionally, and tells you what is realistic before anything is filed.
Chapter 01
The problems this practice handles
Balance due notices. Unfiled tax returns. Penalties and interest that keep growing. Wage garnishments. Bank levies. Refund offsets. Repeated or confusing IRS letters that each seem to contradict the last one.
Individuals, families and business owners all end up in the same place: a letter arrives, the amount is not survivable at a glance, and the deadline printed on it is closer than it looks. What actually changes the outcome is finding out what the IRS has on file for you, which is not the same thing as what the letter says.
A structured and ethical resolution process
Review IRS transcripts and notices. Bring all required filings current. Analyse the resolution options that are genuinely available. Communicate with the IRS on your behalf. Implement the resolution and monitor it.
The order matters. Compliance comes before resolution because the IRS will not settle a balance for a taxpayer who is not current, so any missing or incorrect returns are addressed first. Skipping that step is how cases get quoted optimistically and then collapse.
Chapter 03
What resolution can and cannot do
Collection action can be stopped when appropriate. Payment solutions can be made manageable. Penalties can be reduced when you are eligible. And you get clarity and direction, which is worth more than most people expect on the day the letter arrives.
Those hedges are deliberate. Installment agreements, penalty abatement and currently not collectible status are real tools with real eligibility rules, and none of them applies to every case. We explain which options are realistic, what each one requires of you, and how the process usually runs, without pressure or guarantees. Any firm quoting you a settlement figure before reading your transcripts is guessing.
Tax resolution for home health agencies
Home health agencies carry payroll tax exposure that most small businesses simply do not. Caregiver headcount is high, hours move week to week, and worker classification questions are genuinely difficult. When an agency falls behind on its 941 deposits, the balance compounds fast and the IRS treats the withheld portion as trust fund money, which is the category it pursues hardest and fastest.
That is resolution work: employment tax notices, unfiled employment returns, collection activity against the entity, and representation before the IRS while it is being sorted out. Ongoing bookkeeping and payroll processing are not part of this engagement, and if that is what an agency actually needs, it will be told so plainly.
Who reads your file
Michael Hayes, CPA, licensed in Virginia. The resolution process here is informed by advanced professional education and nationally recognised frameworks, including training through the American Society of Tax Problem Solvers.
That matters most in the part of this business you cannot see from the outside. National settlement mills route a caller to a salesperson first and a credentialled person much later, if at all. Here it is CPA-led guidance rather than sales representatives, judgment-free, and run through a secure virtual process so that being outside Greenville costs you nothing.
Hayes Tax Strategies. Michael Hayes, CPA, licensed in Virginia. Call (252) 916-3278.