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Yes. To respond to the Statutory Notice of Deficiency, our firm will: File a Petition in the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C., where we will challenge the amount of tax IRS says you owe. File an Entry of Appearance with the Tax Court indicating that we are representing you in the case. Designate Washington, D.C. as the place of trial. This is a document that lets the Tax Court and IRS know that if your case goes to trial, the trial would be held in Washington, D.C. We will try our utmost, however, to settle your case without a trial. If your case does go to trial, you will be required to travel to Washington, D.C.

Our representation includes coordinating with you the gathering of all documents and completion of forms required to be filed with the IRS to accomplish the objective you agree to have us pursue. It is very important for you to cooperate and participate fully in gathering this information and forwarding it to us as soon as possible. Once we have all of the required documents and forms, our representation includes initial negotiations with IRS on your behalf, a request for reconsideration of any initial adverse decision by IRS, and, if you decide to further appeal a further adverse decision, one administrative appeal before the IRS Office of Appeals. Our fee for these services will not change during the course of our representation. We will advise you of the fee to provide this representation before we begin working for you.

Often, much of the information that we obtain for resolving your federal tax debt can be helpful in resolving your state tax debt, provided your state will accept our Representation, and further provided that you are trying to accomplish the same objective at the federal and state levels. For these reasons, the fee will probably be higher to represent you before the IRS and your state tax agency, but it should not be very much higher. We can give you an exact fee for both your federal and state tax cases once we know your particular facts and circumstances and whether your state will accept our representation.

The IRS will issue a Certificate of Nonattachment of the Federal Tax Lien when shown proof that a Notice of Federal Tax Lien was filed against the wrong person.

Yes. The IRS has the authority to withdraw a Notice of Federal Tax Lien against the taxpayer when IRS has prematurely filed the Notice or otherwise filed the Notice not in accordance with administrative procedures and when it will facilitate your payment of the tax, as when removal of the lien allows additional credit to pay the tax. Also, the IRS may withdraw a notice for any reason considered to be in the best interests of the government. Withdrawal of the Notice is not mandatory.