Carlos Samaniego

Field Note

I made a comic book about the IRS

Carlos Samaniego · September 2, 2026 · 2 min read

Tomorrow morning I am sending you a free comic book.

 

No charge. No order form. No upsell buried at the bottom.

 

Here is why you are getting it.

 

This afternoon, Liz and I sat in the living room and watched our daughter play her first college volleyball game.

She is a sophomore at the United States Coast Guard Academy. She was not expecting much playing time.

 

Second set, she came out in the libero jersey.

 

Third set, she started.

 

Nine years of practices, long drives, hard seasons, and work nobody claps for. And there she was, starting for the United States Coast Guard Academy.

 

I am still riding that one. And when I feel like this, I give something away.

 

So here it is.

 

I have been telling people for years that I was going to make a comic book about tax problems.

Most of them thought I was kidding.
 

I wasn't.

 

It is the first comic book I know of built around what actually happens to a real person when The Collector (the IRS) comes for them.

Not a brochure. Not a tax guide with a cape on it.

A story, with a villain who does not blink and a person who has to decide what to do about it.

 

I built it because most people will not read forty pages about levies and liens.

They will read this. And when they finish it, they will understand what is coming at them better than they did twenty minutes earlier.

 

Watch your inbox tomorrow morning.

 

If you are in the middle of it right now and tomorrow is too far away, go to TaxDebtTriage.com and tell me what you are dealing with.

 

Call me directly at 909-570-1103.

 

If you just want to book your own appointment, go to calltaxea.com. 

 

To your survival,

 

Carlos "Proud Dad" Samaniego, EA, NTPI Fellow
The Tax Debt Detective
TaxDebtConsultant.com
909-570-1103

 

P.S. Nine years of quiet work showed up in one set last night. A tax problem works the exact same way in reverse.

Every month you leave it alone is another month stacking up where you cannot see it. Tomorrow's comic will make you laugh. The Collector will not.

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