PAYROLL TAXES

 If you have fallen behind with paying your business payroll taxes, you are not alone.  Now that the economy has slowed down, it has become very difficult for many San Diego County business owners to keep up with their required payroll tax payments to the IRS and the California EDD.  Also, many San Diego businesses have become delinquent with filing their required quarterly payroll tax returns too.  These are all serious problems that requires your immediate attention.  If you are in this situation - unpaid payroll taxes and/or unfiled payroll tax returns, it is very important that you immediately contact me, San Diego tax attorney Richard Carpenter, for assistance.  I help small business owners. Put my 25 years of tax law experience to work for you.

DID YOU KNOW THAT ...

• The IRS and California EDD will each take aggressive collection action against small businesses that fall behind with their quarterly payroll tax obligations.
• The IRS and California EDD can each levy on your business bank accounts to obtain their delinquent payroll tax money - causing you havoc when trying to pay your other bills.
• The IRS and California EDD can each contact your customers and demand (via a levy) that they pay them directly instead of paying your business - leaving you with more cash flow problems.
• The IRS and California EDD can each file a tax lien against your business.  A tax lien is a public record that your business is behind with their required payroll tax payments.  Your competitors will then see that your business is in serious financial trouble.
• An IRS Revenue Officer can make a surprise in-person visit to your business or your home to demand immediate payment.
• The IRS and the California EDD can both take steps to personally hold you responsible for your company's nonpayment of payroll taxes.  This is called the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty - IRS code section 6672 and California code section 1735 .  Even though your business is a corporation, that will not shield you from the IRS and California EDD coming after your personal assets.  Not only is your business at risk, but so are your own personal assets - including your home. 

SAN DIEGO TAX LAWYER RICHARD CARPENTER CAN HELP BY ...

• Setting a "tax game plan" with you that provides the most effective solution to your business payroll tax problems.
• Communicating directly with the IRS and California EDD, so that you never have to meet with them. 
• Eliminating possible surprise visits to your business or home by the IRS.
• Determining whether an IRS and EDD approved monthly repayment plan allowing you time to "catch up" is your best option.
• Determining whether an Offer-In-Compromise is your best option to resolve all of your payroll tax issues. (Note: please see my separate Offer-In-Compromise section for additional details.)
• Utilizing, when appropriate, your Collection Appeal Rights and Collection Due Process hearing rights.
• Negotiating with the IRS and California EDD to possibly avoid future levies against your business bank accounts.
• Having my specially trained staff prepare and file multiple quarters of delinquent IRS and California EDD payroll tax returns quickly and effectively.

RICHARD CARPENTER'S EXPERIENCE ...

     Since 1984, I have successfully represented more than one thousand clients in resolving their IRS tax disputes. I have the knowledge and 25 years of experience to obtain the best appeals settlement possible.

     I am a part-time tax law professor, a Certified Tax Law Specialist, and the author of 14 published articles, including some of the leading articles resolving IRS tax disputes.

     Unlike some tax controversy defense attorneys, I did not start out my legal career as an IRS attorney using the Tax Code against honest taxpayers. I also did not start out my legal career as a federal prosecutor working to put good people in prison for some mistakes on their tax returns. Instead, I have devoted my entire 25 year legal career helping to defend hardworking, family-oriented taxpayers against the far and powerful reaches of the Internal Revenue Service and I am proud of that accomplishment. Being an effective tax controversy defense attorney is a mindset and I have had that tax defense mindset for my entire 25 year legal career.

WARNING: Tax law is complex. Thus, it is very important that you hire only an experienced, State Bar Certified, tax attorney to represent you and that you carefully review their background before you hire them. I recommend a minimum of 15 years of tax controversy defense experience. Don't be fooled by those "tax-help" company websites. As you may have already noticed, many of those websites intentionally avoid listing the background of the tax person who will be working on your case because he / she is either a novice attorney, or worse yet only an enrolled agent or accountant.

EXPERT GUIDANCE ... During the past 25 years, many attorneys and CPA's have looked to San Diego Tax Attorney Richard Carpenter for expert guidance in helping their clients resolve serious tax problems with the IRS. For a complete description of my background, please click here.

HELP IS AVAILABLE TO YOU ...

 If you are serious about resolving your tax problem, I can help you. Please call me at (619) 696-8607 to discuss your tax situation in complete confidence. Put my 25 years of tax law experience to work for you.

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RICHARD CARPENTER
SAN DIEGO TAX ATTORNEY
406 Ninth Ave., Suite 213
San Diego, CA 92101
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