Wage garnishment is a very effective tool used by IRS to collect overdue taxes. In this way, IRS ensures that it gets money directly from your salary. It can take money from salaries, bonuses, commissions as well as from retirement earnings. You need to avoid this situation in the first place, but if it occurs unfortunately, then there are some effective ways to handle it. (more…)

So you received an IRS wage levy? A wage levy is one of the harshest collection mechanisms used by the IRS. If you are slow to act on this the IRS can leave you with little money to pay the remainder of your bills. The wage levy will remain in place until the IRS has collected enough money to pay off your entire tax liability, until you have reached another form of arrangement with them, or some other “miscellaneous factor” has come into play to force them to stop the levy. Below are 5 ways you can legally stop a wage levy. (more…)