If you’ve got past-due taxes or recently got smacked with a CERTIFIED MAIL with an IRS Levy Notice (CP504 or Letter 11), what I’m about to tell you could be worth its weight in gold bars. Here’s why: Filing your 2024 taxes EARLY could be your secret weapon against the IRS. But wait…
Picture this: Me, shivering my cookies off in “sunny” Orlando, infiltrating a 4-day Tax Rep conference. And boy, did I score some juicy intel about the IRS’s 2025 warfare plans. adjusts tinfoil hat Here’s the no-BS scoop: The tax ninjas are doubling down. Their weapon of choice? A tsunami of levies, liens, summons, and subpoenas…
Want to know my biggest regret? It’s not the 8 years I went without filing taxes. It’s the 12 years after that… when I knew I had a problem but was too ashamed to do anything about it. That’s 20 years of: Racing to grab the mail before anyone else saw Hiding IRS letters in…
Quick update from foggy San Diego airport… My son Andrew and I are heading to the 4th Annual Tax Rep Summit at Disney Springs, where I’ll be one of the teachers teaching at attorney Eric’s Green event, 100+ tax pros on how we make IRS problems disappear. (Yes, this is after spending the entire weekend…
A few years ago, I made a big decision in my life to hire Larry Winget as my business coach. You may know Larry Winget as the no-nonsense “take responsibility for your life, business and money” guy. It was the best thing I ever did for my business. He wrote a ton of books but…
Just last night, I took my daughter Bella to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. It was a well-deserved reward for her after completing her 7th and final SAT exam over the past year and a half. But let’s be real, it was also a treat for myself – I’ve been dying to go…
It’s Friday afternoon, and we’re wrapping up another busy week of tackling IRS and State Tax issues for our clients. I’m looking forward to unwinding with either a spooky spider cider margarita or a couple of glasses of witches’ brew wine before heading out to our First Friday Night Frights at Yucaipa Football. But before…
Well, it’s official… we’re homeless again. As I mentioned yesterday, we stayed in our Mountain Home Village house as long as we could. But the “Line Fire” has exploded—over 26,000 acres now, and it’s just a quarter-mile from our doorstep. For perspective, the last fire took three months to hit 20,000 acres. This one did…
This morning, I woke up at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Yeah, that Beverly Hills Hotel is where movie stars sip martinis and make million-dollar deals. I’ve been here since Wednesday evening, working in the mornings and gearing up for tonight’s big Golden Gala Awards. I’ll be getting an award for my TaxDebtConsultant podcast. But enough…
Four years ago, on a scorching Labor Day weekend much like this one, my family and I were knee-deep in the frenzy of a 27-mile garage sale in Mountain Home Village. The promise of treasure-hunting in 110-degree heat was intense—until it wasn’t. As the day was heating up, Bella and I spotted a wisp of…