Taxpayer rights & procedure · 32 years · Over $100M resolved
The government wrote the rules. Use them.
Hearings the IRS must grant. Clocks that run in your favor. Assessments that can be challenged years later. Every procedure on this site is a right Congress or the courts gave taxpayers - and rights only work when someone asserts them, on time, in the right format.
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Rights & procedures
32
Years asserting them
$100M+
Debt resolved
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Three truths about taxpayer rights
They expire on schedule
Thirty days for hearings, ninety for Tax Court, sixty for trust fund protests. The right is the deadline - read every IRS letter for its date before its content.
They run on format
Hearings get requested on the right form with the right grounds. Files get built to the published standards. Rights asserted in the wrong format are rights wasted.
Nobody asserts them for you
The IRS follows the rules it must - and volunteers nothing. Every procedure here works, and every one waits for a taxpayer or their counsel to invoke it.
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All 22 →Your Procedural Rights · 4 min
Collection Due Process Rights: The Statutory Brake on the IRS
Congress gave taxpayers a hearing right before levies and after lien filings. What the right covers, how it gets invoked, and what it costs.
The Clocks & The Record · 4 min
The Three IRS Statutes of Limitations: Assessment, Collection, Refund
Three different clocks govern every tax year - one protecting the government, one protecting you, one protecting your money. The complete guide.
Your Procedural Rights · 4 min
Challenging an IRS Assessment: Every Door Into the Dispute
Deficiency procedures, audit reconsideration, refund claims, and the CDP liability door - the complete map of ways to contest what the IRS says you owe.
The Clocks & The Record · 4 min
The IRS Automated Collection System: Fighting the Machine
Most collection cases never meet a human. How ACS works, what it can and cannot do, and the procedures that move a case when nobody owns it.
Your Procedural Rights · 4 min
The Form 4180 Interview: Preparation That Decides Personal Liability
The trust fund interview is scripted, evidentiary, and survivable with preparation. The questions, the traps, and the alternatives to sitting for it.
Special Procedures · 4 min
Stopping an IRS Levy Immediately: The Emergency Procedures
The same-day and same-week procedures that actually stop levies: hardship releases, the CDP bar, resolution postings, and defect challenges.
Rights only work when someone asserts them.
One call with a tax attorney maps your rights, your deadlines, and the procedure that fits. Free, privileged, and straight.
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