Tax Debt Relief Group provides IRS Fresh Start Program help in Orlando and across Central Florida. Peter Kici, Enrolled Agent and USMC veteran, reviews your IRS account, finds which Fresh Start options you qualify for, and handles the IRS for you.

The Fresh Start Program is not one program

You have probably heard ads promising the “IRS Fresh Start Program” will wipe out your tax debt. That is not what it is. In February 2011 the IRS announced a series of changes to its collection rules and called them a “fresh start” (IRS news release IR-2011-20). There is no application that forgives your balance. What exists is a set of IRS rules that can make a tax debt easier to resolve, if your case fits them.

What the IRS changed:

Fewer tax liens. The IRS raised the balance at which it generally files a Notice of Federal Tax Lien. Its manual now uses a $10,000 unpaid balance as the lien-filing threshold (IRM 5.12.2).
Lien withdrawal with a payment plan. If you owe $25,000 or less and pay by Direct Debit Installment Agreement, the IRS may withdraw a filed lien (IRC 6323(j); Form 12277).
Payment plans without a financial statement. If you owe $50,000 or less and the plan pays the balance in full, with penalties and interest, before the IRS collection deadline, the IRS can approve it without a Collection Information Statement (IRM 5.14.5.2). Business payroll tax balances qualify up to $25,000 (IRM 5.14.5.4), and income tax of $10,000 or less may qualify for a guaranteed agreement (IRC 6159(c)). Above these amounts, the IRS generally requires a full financial statement.
Offer in compromise. The IRS expanded the offer program, which settles a tax debt for less than the full amount when you cannot pay it in full.

What we do for you

These options only help if the right one is matched to your account and filed correctly. That is our job. You do not deal with the IRS; we do.

Pull your IRS transcripts and confirm what you actually owe.
Decide which option fits: a payment plan, lien withdrawal, an offer in compromise, or another IRS remedy.
Bring any unfiled returns current, since most options require it.
Look at every other legal way to reduce the balance. See our IRS tax forgiveness help page.
Represent you before the IRS under a signed power of attorney (Form 2848) and negotiate the terms.

Be careful with “Fresh Start” ads

Companies that promise to settle your debt for “pennies on the dollar” before they have seen your IRS records are guessing. No one can promise an outcome before reviewing your account. We look at your transcripts first, tell you plainly which options are realistic, and charge a flat fee agreed up front.

Who we help

Individuals and small business owners in Orlando, Oviedo, Winter Springs, Sanford, Casselberry and the rest of Central Florida, plus clients in all 50 states by phone and secure upload. Peter is an Enrolled Agent, a federally licensed tax practitioner authorized to represent taxpayers before the IRS. He is not an attorney.

Ready to find out which Fresh Start options fit your case? Book a free consultation or call (407) 531-8705. Not ready to call yet? Get Peter’s free IRS Survival Guide.