Best Practices For An IRS Levy Or Wage Garnishment

Overview

You are likely familiar and/or have experience with IRS levies and wage garnishments. BUT - Did you know that there's a lot of technicalities and procedural requirements that go into issuing an IRS levy or wage garnishment that you can exploit as a practitioner? This program will focus on the basics of an IRS levy or wage garnishment along with breaking down common errors that IRS employees tend to make in the issuance of a levy and remedies that can be used to obtain relief from a levy or wage garnishment. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Prerequisites

None

Objectives

After attending this presentation you will be able to...

• Determine what the legal and procedural requirements for levy are.
• Distinguish between legal attachment to property.
• Identify common levy errors.
• Employ levy mitigation strategies.
• Appeal an active levy.

Highlights

The major topics covered in this course include:

• Learning the pre-levy notice requirements.
• Knowing what the levy exemptions are.
• Proposing levy alternatives.
• Understanding the difference between wrongful levy versus erroneous levy.
• Knowing how to employ levy mitigation techniques.