What do well known people and organizations like Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer, Randy Quaid, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dustin Diamond; rappers and hip hop artists Diddy, Flavor Flav, DMX, and M.C. Hammer; reality star and bounty hunter ‘Dog’ Chapman; boxers Julio Caesar Chavez and Floyd Mayweather; ACORN, American Legion, porn film maker Joe Francis, Olympic swim star Michael Phelps, and heiress Anna Nicole Smith all have in common? Answer: they’ve all been on the internet a short time ago by being hit with the feared Internal Revenue Service tax lien.
I just completed evaluating the a bunch of webpages to find all these recognized people, and in between the articles telling about their tax problems I also came across numerous accountants and tax lawyers posting to their blogs information telling everyone that if the Internal Revenue Service files a lien against you we should all be anxious; very anxious. Well, they didn’t say it like that just so, mostly they played on the concern most citizens have about coping with the IRS. They also played off the damaging effect that a IRS tax lien can have on your ability to borrow. Most importantly these Certified Public Accountants and tax attorneys are telling us all that if we have an IRS tax lien we most certainly should locate professional guidance; if at all possible from them.
Over the last 10 to 15 years or so, I’ve been researching the topic of Internal Revenue Service tax lien elimination and have discovered some legal principles that will furnish you a rationale to calm down and put these fears away.
First of all, I want to remind you that the Scriptures tell us that perfect love casts out fear. See 1 John 4:18. If you feel afraid, based on this Scripture, it is time to put your attention on the perfecting of your love. Also, the Certified Public Accountants and tax lawyers who play on your fear to get your business need to look at Isaiah 8:12; the Scriptures tell us there that we are not to make others in fear or in dread.
Secondly, I wanted to make you aware that Congress has put some well thought out tools at our disposal for getting Federal tax liens removed, without having to pay the feds money that I did not see a single Certified Public Accountant or tax lawyer discuss in all of the blog posts I reviewed.
I was studyingTitle 26 statutes one day and came across 26 USC § 6323(j). This is the very last of many subsections and seems to be hidden at the bottom on purpose. (j)(1) of that section starts out, “The Secretary may withdraw a notice of a lien filed under this section…” Ah ha! This is getting my attention and it should yours as well. Subsection (j)(1)(A) continues by explaining when the notice of lien can be withdrawn, when the filing of such notice was not in accordance with administrative procedures of the Secretary.
With respect to your credit, section (j)(2) provides that if you ask them too, the Secretary shall punctually make reasonable efforts to notify credit reporting agencies, financial institutions or creditors whose name and address you specify of the withdrawal of such notice.
So, what you need to know is how the IRS failed to follow their administrative procedures and I point you toward those in my IRS lien removal video and in my Federal tax lien removal website. I learned about these defects in their procedures by reading Treasury Inspector General Audit Reports. Secondly, you need to know how to apply some leverage to force the IRS to act on the statute on your behalf. I have some good news for you on that as well.