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IRS Penalties Can Often Be Removed.
Most People Never Ask.
The IRS has formal programs for removing penalties, including one that requires nothing more than a clean compliance history.
We pull your IRS transcript, confirm what you qualify for before anything is filed, and submit the request for a flat fee.
No percentage games, no hourly meter.
Eligibility confirmed from your IRS transcript before we file anything.
IRS TAX RESOLUTION
You are working directly with an IRS Enrolled Agent.
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Our team includes Enrolled Agents licensed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury with unlimited authority to represent clients before the IRS for audits, collections, appeals, and notices in all 50 states.
That representation is built into every engagement we take on.
The Penalty Is Often the Problem
Look at your IRS balance and separate the pieces. There is the tax. Then there is the failure-to-file penalty, the failure-to-pay penalty, and the interest compounding on all of it. For many taxpayers, the penalties and interest have grown larger than the original tax, which means the debt you are struggling with is partly optional.
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The IRS abates millions of dollars in penalties every year through programs written into its own rules. But abatement is not automatic, and the IRS will never volunteer it. The taxpayers who get penalties removed share exactly one trait: someone asked, correctly, in the format the IRS requires.
First, Understand What Just Happened
First-Time Abatement
If you have a clean compliance history for the three years before the penalty year, the IRS can remove failure-to-file, failure-to-pay, and certain deposit penalties, essentially as a courtesy written into its own procedures. No hardship story required, no documentation battle. It is the closest thing to free money in the tax code.
Reasonable Cause
Serious illness, natural disaster, death in the family, records destroyed, reliance on a professional who dropped the ball: the IRS recognizes that compliance sometimes fails for reasons outside your control. A reasonable cause request tells that story with the facts, timeline, and documentation the IRS standard requires.
Why We Check Before We File
Anyone can mail the IRS a request. The difference in outcomes comes from what happens first. Before we file anything, we pull your complete IRS transcript through our professional access and confirm three things: whether first-time abatement is available, what the full penalty picture actually is (taxpayers routinely have removable penalties on years they forgot about), and whether anything else on the account needs attention.
That transcript review protects you twice. You never pay for a request that was never going to work, and you find out what you actually qualify for, which is sometimes more than you came for. If first-time abatement is not available, we pivot to reasonable cause with your approval.
If the review shows no viable path at all, we tell you and refund your fee minus a $150 diagnostic charge.
This is disclosed here and at checkout.
How It Works
1
Purchase
and Authorize
Buy the service, sign the engagement, and authorize us electronically to access your IRS record. Ten minutes, all online.
2
Transcript
Review
We pull your transcripts, confirm your eligibility path, and identify every removable penalty on the account, not just the one on the notice you are holding.
3
Request Prepared
and Submitted
Your request is prepared by tax professionals and submitted. Where the IRS grants first-time abatement by phone, we make that call, which can shorten the timeline to minutes.
4
Written
Confirmation
We track the request to a decision and deliver the IRS confirmation with the dollar amount removed stated in plain numbers. That letter tends to get framed.
Frequently asked questions
Is removal guaranteed?
No, and be wary of anyone who says otherwise. What we guarantee is the process: your eligibility confirmed from the actual IRS record before filing, a professionally prepared request, and honest advice about your odds before you commit.
How much can actually be removed?
Whatever the qualifying penalties total, which for many taxpayers runs into thousands of dollars. Interest charged on removed penalties is also reduced, so the real number is often larger than the penalty line itself.
Does this work for business and payroll penalties?
First-time abatement covers certain deposit penalties, and reasonable cause applies broadly.
Payroll notice cases have their own resolution service with penalty abatement built in where it applies.
I still can't pay the underlying tax. Does abatement still help?
Yes, and it usually comes first. Removing penalties shrinks the balance that any payment plan or settlement has to solve for. Abatement pairs with every resolution strategy we offer.
What if I've already paid the penalty?
Paid penalties can often still be recovered through a refund claim if the request is made within the statutory window. The transcript review will show what is still claimable.
Why is your fee flat instead of a percentage?
Because a percentage fee rewards the firm for the size of your problem rather than the quality of the work. The work of preparing a correct request is the same either way. You keep what gets removed. All of it.
The IRS Will Not Offer. You Have to Ask.
Every month, penalties compound and interest builds on top of them, and the IRS is under no obligation to mention that some of it is removable.
The request costs a flat fee. Not asking has been costing you every month since the penalty posted.
Find out what you qualify for.
We check before we file, so the answer costs you nothing but the asking.
This page provides general information and is not tax or legal advice. Eligibility for installment agreements, offers in compromise, hardship status, and penalty relief depends on the specific facts and financial circumstances of your case. No outcome is guaranteed.