Tax Relief Blog

The IRS offers many different ways to pay your tax debt.  You can pay electronically in the following ways.

• With a credit card
• Through Direct Pay with the payment coming directly out of your checking or savings account
• Through the Electronic Federal Tax payment System (EFTPS) and  
• You can even send a same-day wire transfer

Some of these options are free and all should be safe and secure.  Start by clicking on the IRS Electronic Payment Options Home Page. 

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The IRS will Release your tax lien within 30 days of full payment.  In some cases, the IRS will also Withdraw the tax lien after full payment.  The Service may also Withdraw your tax lien even if the tax isn't full paid.

The difference between a Release and a Withdrawal is in how credit reporting agencies treat the two.  A Withdrawal will remove the tax lien and any reference of it from a credit report.  A Release will not.  With just a Release, the tax lien will show up on a credit report f...

At Fresh Start Tax Relief we want to help people get out from underneath of their IRS tax debt without paying high fees to tax resolution firms and attorneys.  Most individuals that owe a tax debt to the IRS can resolve it without outside help.  You can even request the removal of penalties on your own. 

Here are two tips to help you remove IRS penalties on your own.

The IRS can remove penalties over the phone.  However, there is a dollar threshold.  Although the dollar threshold changes f...