Tampa Tax Attorneys Assisting With Wage Garnishments In Sarasota, St. Petersburg, Clearwater West Palm Beach and All of Florida

Wage garnishment is the technical term for the government’s ability to automatically take a portion of a taxpayer’s regular wages directly from a paycheck in order to recover taxes owed. While it is not possible for the IRS to impose wage garnishment on a taxpayer without following a strict protocol, the requirements that the IRS needs to meet are not especially demanding: 1) The IRS must have assessed the tax and must have sent a written Notice and Demand for Payment to the taxpayer, 2) The taxpayer must have neglected or refused to pay the tax within the time prescribed in the notice, and 3) The IRS must have sent a Final Notice of Intent to Levy (essentially notification of wage garnishment) and the Notice of Your Right to a Hearing at least 30 days before the wage garnishment is to begin.

The IRS may serve a taxpayer final notice of wage garnishment in a number of ways, however it is not required that the taxpayer actually physically receive the notice in order for the for the wage garnishment to take effect. Because of this, there are often instances of taxpayers not realizing that the IRS is garnishing their wages – they only notice that something is wrong when the amount of their weekly paycheck has decreased.

It is possible to have wage garnishments reversed and released if a taxpayer responds as quickly as possible and retains a knowledgeable tax professional to handle the situation. The tax lawyers at Yesner & Boss, P.L. can help taxpayers in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Brandon, Sarasota, New Tampa, and throughout Florida to swiftly and effectively deal with wage garnishment situations – contact us now for a consultation.