Do i need an attorney to file an Offer In Compromise to the IRS?
Friday, February 5th, 2010 at
6:37 am
i am considering filing an Offer In Compromise with where can i buy prescription drugs without a prescription the IRS and was quoted ,500-,500 from a few tax consultants and attorneys … that is a lot of money … is there a way to file it myself ???
Yuck! You have been quoted about three times what I charge my clients for the same service but then I don’t spend 2/3 of the money coming in on TV ads.
You can do it yourself but it is often like doing your own car repairs or brain surgery on yourself. If you don’t know what you are doing, you are going to mess things up. Some of the correct answers on the IRS forms are not the same as you might think.
Isn’t being cheap how you got into financial trouble to begin with??? If you paid the IRS what you owed them to begin with, you would have have to worry about this.
Sure but the most they might waive is penalties The tax and interest remain.
Try it yourself
You can do it yourself, no need for an attorney.
Here is the form you fill out http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f656.pdf
There are three basic reasons the IRS "might" agree to a compromise and those are detailed here http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=104593,00.html
You can file it yourself, but it isn’t an easy thing to do.