{"id":18431,"date":"2012-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/success-story-stop-lien\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:44:48","slug":"success-story-stop-lien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/success-story-stop-lien\/","title":{"rendered":"Success Story: Stop That Lien!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tax-relief industry loves to make IRS problems sound impossible without them. They&#039;re not. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Let me explain how this actually works.<\/p>\n<p>A self-employed contractor who owed money to the IRS filed an amended return and requested additional time to pay what was owed.<a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/tag\/tax-lien\/\"> The IRS agreed to a collection hold, but still planned to file a lien<\/a>. Because this would adversely affect the contractor&#8217;s credit report, the contractor objected. Taxpayer Advocate Services (TAS) was able to successfully resolve the issue with the IRS on behalf of the contractor to avoid the lien. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-help\/\">Click here to read or watch more IRS Help resources.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tax-relief industry loves to make IRS problems sound impossible without them. They&#039;re not. I&#039;m Darrin Mish. I&#039;ve been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Let me explain how this actually works. A self-employed contractor who owed money to the IRS filed an amended return and requested additional time to pay what was [&hellip;]<\/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":[4],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-18431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-help","tag-tax-lien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431","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=18431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22197,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431\/revisions\/22197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}