Our client was a sales representative for an out of state company who was being pursued by a state for unpaid employment taxes. When we were retained, the state had placed a lien on his home. Our investigation into the taxes determined that the state mistakenly believed our client was an officer of his employee based on the company’s business tax application. We requested a copy of the original application from the state and discovered that someone had written our client’s name in but that there was no signature (which should have resulted in the application being rejected). We provided the state with this information and copies of the filings from the company’s home state showing who the true officers were and the state agreed to abate the assessment and remove the lien.

Our client was an investor in a business who took over when he discovered management had submitted incorrect payroll tax returns showing a massive balance due. Our client fully cooperated with the IRS inquiry and provided full and complete payroll tax returns showing that all taxes due had been deposited and no money was owed.

Despite our client’s honesty, the IRS agent assigned to the case used the original erroneous returns to assess personal liability against him which resulted in the IRS taking $125,000 that he was owed in tax refunds. We were able to contact the IRS and get them to fully abate the erroneous assessments and refund our client the money that was wrongfully taken from him.