Strategies
For
When You Owe the IRS

By

Marguerite Hammond

Copyright © 2012 by Marguerite Hammond

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About the Author

Marguerite Hammond is a former field tax collector for the IRS with 23 years field experience and six years’ experience as a front line manager. Ms. Hammond instructed newly hired IRS personnel. She also instructed experienced collectors at the IRS’s continuing education program. Ms. Hammond retired from the IRS with over 29 years’ experience.

Ms. Hammond has experience in all areas of collection, including installment agreements, settlement agreements, abating penalties and enforced collection such as levies and seizures.

To my son Tom whose interest in writing inspired me to rekindled my long lost desire to write.

Author’s Note

This book puts the Internal Revenue Service’s collection process in laymen terms and offers a variety of strategies to put you in the best bargaining position with the IRS. Marguerite walks you through the financial form, how to ask for abatement of penalties, and your appeal rights among many other topics.