December 3, 2010

California Tax Debt & Bankruptcy

A Sacramento bankruptcy attorney explains California tax debt and bankruptcy.

A lot of very wealthy and successful people can find trouble with California tax debt. Some very successful people such as successful business people and others have been struggling to pay off their California tax debt for years. The tax debt can and usually is caused by bad accounting practices. The California Department of Revenue tries to do everything they can in order to collect the revenue that it takes in order to properly run state government. A lot of people may need to hire a tax debt relief attorney in order to properly deal with these problems.

The truth is that bankruptcy will often not end up helping your problems when it comes to paying off your California taxes. People may end up talking about a wide variety of different taxes out there, many people open up franchises in the state of California. This means that you may find trouble when it comes to the franchise taxes that people may owe to the state. A good California tax debt attorney is also going to be able to help out with property taxes issues that a person may be facing, whether people are talking about commercial or residential property. The ultimate goal should be that a person will not have to end up filing bankruptcy over the tax debt.

We can answer all your questions regarding filing a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a Chapter 13 bankruptcy, bankruptcy litigation, legal debt settlement, mortgage modification, lien stripping, cram down, stopping a foreclosure, wage garnishment, discharging a debt, asset protection, etc. If you need help regarding a bankruptcy in Sacramento, call us at 916.792.6025 or 1800.941.6730 and we will be more than happy to offer you a free consultation over the phone. You can also fill out a free online evaluation at our website, www.sagarialaw.com, or request a free face to face appointment at a Sagaria Law office location close to you. We have bankruptcy attorneys located throughout California and Oregon to assist you with all your debt resolution needs.

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August 10, 2010

Tax Debt Bankruptcy Litigation

Tax Debt Bankruptcy Litigation

Income tax debts may be eligible for discharge under Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. Filing for bankruptcy is one of five ways to get out of tax debt, but you should consider bankruptcy only if you meet the requirements for discharging your taxes.

Chapter 7 provides for full discharge of allowable debts i.e. those that are classified as priority unsecured and meet the criteria below. Chapter 13 provides a payment plan to repay some debts, with the remainder of debts discharged. Again those taxes discharged must meet the criteria found below.

Not all tax debts are capable of being discharged in bankruptcy. The debtor must have tax debts that meet five criteria for discharge.

Criteria

The due date for filing a tax return is at least three years ago.

The tax return was filed at least two years ago.

The tax assessment is at least 240 days old.

The tax return was not fraudulent.

The taxpayer is not guilty of tax evasion.

A business is responsible for trust fund taxes. A trust fund tax is money withheld from an employee's wages (income tax, social security, and Medicare taxes) by an employer and held in trust until paid to the Treasury.

When you pay your employees, you do not pay them all the money they earned. As their employer, you have the added responsibility of withholding taxes from their paychecks. The income tax and employees' share of FICA (social security and Medicare) that you withhold from your employees' paychecks are part of their wages you pay to the Treasury instead of to your employees. Your employees trust that you pay the withholding to the Treasury by making Federal Tax Deposits. That is why they are called trust fund taxes.

In fact, section 6672 of the Internal Revenue Code authorizes a 100% penalty to be levied against the responsible person. Section 6672(a) states: “Any person required to collect, truthfully account for, and pay over any tax imposed by this title who willfully fails to collect such tax, or truthfully account for and pay over such tax, or willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any such tax or the payment thereof, shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be liable to a penalty equal to the total amount of the tax evaded, or not collected, or not accounted for and paid over.”

Needless to say, the penalty is brutally harsh. It’s absolutely foolish for you to fool around with this loaded gun penalty provision. Therefore, if you believe you could be subject to a Trust Fund Recovery Penalty (TFRP) then call O.W.D Law immediately. Don’t wait until it’s too late. We can give you a free consultation and explain to you, in plain talk, how you can solve this problem and avoid incurring the wrath of the IRS.

Liability for trust fund taxes (the portion of an employee's wages that a employer withholds from the employee's paycheck) is not dischargeable regardless of the age of the tax.


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