{"id":16850,"date":"2011-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-increases-liens-levies\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T22:02:20","slug":"irs-increases-liens-levies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/irs-increases-liens-levies\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Increases Liens and Levies"},"content":{"rendered":"

After 32 years of IRS work \u2014 and more than $100 million in resolved tax debt \u2014 I've seen just about every version of the problem you're dealing with. I'm Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa. Here's what you should know.<\/p>\n

Despite the recession and the people\u2019s financial hardship, the IRS continues to bulldoze its way through in collecting outstanding taxes by filing an increasing number of tax liens and levies. \u00a0In 1999, the number of tax liens filed was 168,000<\/a>. \u00a0Last year, that number skyrocketed to a staggering 1.1 million. \u00a0Over the last seven years alone, the IRS has filed more than 5 million tax liens. \u00a0Not to mention the astronomical number of notices and audits.<\/a><\/div>\n
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All this began around 2006. \u00a0At that time, the government needed money so the IRS began to implement strategies to improve the collection system, automate and bring in more money. \u00a0According to National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson, the IRS has been going after everyone who owes money, not just the wealthy and their actions are causing unnecessary harm.<\/div>\n
A tax lien is damaging to a person\u2019s credit as it stays on his record for 7 years from the time the outstanding tax has been settled, or even longer if it is not settled. \u00a0This is particularly destructive to small businesses as they are not able to obtain credit.<\/div>\n
The IRS said that over the last 2 years, the agency has taken various measures to alleviate the people\u2019s hardship. \u00a0For instance, they have agreed to accept less taxes that what was owed in some cases. \u00a0The IRS has also implemented procedures to withdraw tax liens once the underlying tax has been settled. \u00a0This process will help struggling taxpayers find jobs or securing credit without the problem of having a lien.<\/div>\n
The IRS has also targeted the elderly and disabled and one of the ways of collecting is by garnishing up to 15% of their Social Security payments. \u00a0The rationale is the government should not have to pay someone who owes the government money. \u00a0But for those who rely on every cent of their Social Security for payment of rent, utilities and other essentials, such action can be devastating. \u00a0Hence, this practice is going to be terminated this year if the only source of income of a person is Social Security.<\/div>\n
The IRS has implemented greater automation so whenever data on forms do not match the system picks it up and you would be given a notice or an audit. \u00a0But sometimes, the error is by the IRS themselves. \u00a0The tax laws are so complex that the automated system does not read certain cases correctly.<\/div>\n
If you are struggling with tax debt, call us at (813) 229 7100 for a free consultation.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 32 years of IRS work \u2014 and more than $100 million in resolved tax debt \u2014 I've seen just about every version of the problem you're dealing with. I'm Darrin Mish, a tax attorney in Tampa. Here's what you should know. Despite the recession and the people\u2019s financial hardship, the IRS continues to bulldoze […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[592],"tags":[28,127],"class_list":["post-16850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-problem","tag-irs-audit","tag-tax-lien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21920,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16850\/revisions\/21920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}