


| What to do if you Can’t Pay your Tax Bill BY KNOWLEDGEFINANCIAL.COM While tax time isn’t something most of us look forward to, some of us do anticipate a “reward” in the form of a refund check. But as of December 15th, 2006, nearly 35 million returns did not include a refund, and no doubt many of those consumers found they owed the IRS a good chunk of money. If you can afford to pay your tax bill, it is best to just write a check and get it over with. But if you don’t have that kind of cash lying around, take a look at other options. Note that tax rules change frequently, so check with your tax preparer or the IRS for updates to this information. Not an option------------KNOWLEDGEFINANCIAL.COM What’s not an option is not filing. If you don’t file, or if you don’t find a way to pay what you owe, taxes and penalties can accumulate quickly. If you don’t pay what you owe, a Notice of Federal Tax Lien could be filed against your property. Tax liens are reported to the major credit bureaus and they can drop your credit score significantly. They can be reported as long as any other type of negative information – seven years from the date they are paid. The IRS can ask you to sell or mortgage your assets or urge you to get a loan. Your tax debt may be turned over to a private collection agency. The IRS can also take more serious enforced collection action, such as taking money from your bank accounts, wages, or other income, or taking other assets. In general, they have many more options available to collect your tax debt than other companies to whom you may owe money. Charge It! You can use a major credit card (American Express, Discover, MasterCard, or VISA credit card) whether you file electronically or file a paper return. Credit card payments can be submitted via tax software when filing electronically. Credit card payments can also be made over the telephone and by filing on line. In 2005, about 1.5 million taxpayers paid by credit card, an increase of 54% from the previous year. The IRS does not set or collect any type of fee for credit card payments, but the private sector companies the IRS has authorized to process these payments do impose convenience fees. The tax payment sent to the U.S. Treasury and the convenience fee are listed separately on the cardholder’s credit card statement.-----------KNOWLEDGEFINANCIAL.COM For the 2006 filing season, two companies were authorized by the IRS to accept credit card charges from both electronic and paper filers. Each company offers both phone and Internet payment services and each charges a convenience fee (currently 2.49% of the amount paid) for the service. Fees are based upon the amount of the tax payment and may vary between companies. The two companies are: Link2Gov Corporation, 1-888-PAY-1040 (1-888-729-1040). Official Payments Corporation, 1-800-2PAY-TAX (1-800-272-9829) The disadvantage is that you may have to pay the convenience fee and interest to your card issuer while you pay off the balance. The advantage is that you will have paid your debt to the IRS. It’s generally better to have an outstanding bill with a credit card company than with the IRS. Last year a number of issuers encouraged consumers to pay their taxes with their credit cards with special offers that allowed consumers to reduce or waive the convenience fee and/or earn extra reward points. Visit the above links as tax time approaches to learn more about current offers. Keep in mind that the extra interest charges you pay can quickly outweigh any rewards. Do the math and choose your lowest- rate credit card to minimize the cost. Tip: If your credit card issuer sent you promotional checks with low interest rates, you can use one of these to pay your taxes. You won’t receive bonus points or other offers, but you won’t pay a convenience fee and the interest rate may be lower than your normal interest rate for purchases. Watch out for fees associated with these checks. If there are fees, ask the issuer to waive them. Line up a loan Whether is a personal loan, a home equity line of credit, or a loan from your retirement account, you may want to borrow to pay off the IRS. As with any loan, the interest and fees are important to understand. But when it comes to owing the IRS or a lender, a lender almost always wins hands down. If you act quickly, you should be able to avoid a tax lien on your credit report. Request a monthly payment plan from the IRS---------------KNOWLEDGEFINANCIAL.COM If you can pay your full tax bill over time (in more than four months but less than five years, in most cases), you may want to ask the IRS for an installment agreement.. With an installment plan, you make regular monthly payments until your tax bill is resolved. Like other options, you can only request an installment agreement if all required tax returns have been filed. If you owe $25,000 or less in combined tax, penalties, and interest, you can use the IRS Online Payment Agreement (OPA) to request your installment agreement or call the number on the bill or notice you received. A fill-in Request for Installment Agreement, Form 9465, is available online that can be mailed to the address on the bill. If you owe more than $25,000 in combined tax, penalties, and interest, you may still qualify for an installment agreement, but a Collection Information Statement, Form 433F, may need to be completed. Call the number on the bill or mail the Request for Installment Agreement, Form 9465 and Form 433F, to the address on the bill. The fee for new direct debit installment agreements, where payments are deducted directly from a taxpayer’s bank account, went up from $43 to $52. The fee for other new installment agreements went from $43 to $105. When you file your request for an installment agreement, you will have to pay what you can afford immediately and pay the rest over a reasonable period of time. In addition to the upfront fee, you will also pay interest – currently figured at around 8% per year, compounded daily – plus a late payment penalty. This penalty, usually 0.5% of the balance due per month, drops to 0.25% when the IRS approves the agreement for an individual taxpayer who filed the return on time and did not receive a levy notice. Request a short-term extension If you cannot pay in full immediately due to a hardship but you can pay within the next four months, you may be eligible for a short-term extension of time to pay of up to 120 days. (An extension to pay is not the same as an extension to file.) There is no fee for an extension to pay. You can file a completed Form 1127 along with a statement explaining why paying now would be a financial hardship for you. KNOWLEDGEFINANCIAL.COM |
| The IRS does not approve the majority of these requests. Looking at the form with it’s warnings and requirements, including a detailed list of your assets and itemized spending and income for the past for the last three months, is enough to scare most taxpayers off! Most taxpayers will instead request either an installment agreement or an offer in compromise, or find another way to pay. Request an offer in compromise An Offer in Compromise (OIC) is an agreement between a taxpayer and the IRS that resolves the taxpayer's tax debt. The IRS has the authority to settle or "compromise" federal tax liabilities by accepting less than full payment under certain circumstances. These include doubt that the assessed tax is correct and doubt that you could ever pay the full amount owed. But it’s not an easy way to pay less than you owe. In fact, the IRS says it resolves less than 1% of all balance due accounts through the OIC program. When you see ads claiming you can “settle your tax bill for less than you owe,” they are usually referring to an offer in compromise. Be careful, however, of promises to settle your tax bill for pennies on the dollar. The IRS warns that some companies are collecting excessive fees from consumers who will never qualify for these programs. You can complete all the paperwork on your own by following the instructions found at the IRS website. Like most tax issues, the rules for offers in compromise have become more complicated. With the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (TIPRA), significant changes were made to the IRS Offer in Compromise (OIC) program. As a result, it may make sense to get help from a tax professional to help you evaluate your options and prepare your offer in compromise. The IRS generally has 24 months to accept or reject your offer or negotiate a further compromise. One of the main changes in the law requires that offers submitted after July 16, 2006, must be accompanied by a $150 application fee, and partial payments of the proposed offer amount. The form of these partial payments depends upon the taxpayer’s proposed offer and its terms. (There are exceptions to this requirement for low-income taxpayers, or offers filed when there is doubt as to liability only. See more information below.) When you file your offer (excluding doubt as to liability offers) you must specify whether you are filing a lump sum or periodic payment offer. In the case of a “lump sum” (which means five or fewer installments), you must pay 20 percent of the offer amount with the application. If you file a “periodic payment offer” (which means six or more installments), you must pay the first proposed installment payment with the application and pay additional installments while the IRS is evaluating the offer. If you are a low-income taxpayer, or you are filing a doubt as to liability offer only, the $150 application fee is waived and you do not need to make a partial payment. A low-income taxpayer is an individual whose income falls at or below poverty levels based on guidelines established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Additional paperwork is required. |
| How to Cut Your Property Taxes ---------- KNOWLEDGEFINANCIAL.COM One of the “joys” of homeownership is paying property taxes. While we all want our roads plowed and our children educated, no one wants to pay more in taxes than necessary, especially if our neighbors are paying less for a house that’s quite similar or even better. The median amount that U.S. homeowners paid in property taxes in 2006 was $1,742, but some folks were hit with much larger bills. For example, according to the non-profit, non-partisan Tax Foundation, homeowners in Hunterdon County, New Jersey paid the most. The median tax bite there was $7,999. Have a bigger than average house on a large piece of property in Hunterdon? Then all I can say is “Ouch!” Wherever you live, you may be surprised to learn that the amount you have to pay is more under your control than you may have thought. Municipalities all have procedures for “grieving” property taxes, where – if you make a strong case – you can get your taxes lowered, not just for a year, but for years to come. How Property Taxes Are Calculated --------KNOWLEDGEFINANCIAL.COM Before you can build a case, you need to understand how the tax collectors arrive at the amount you have to pay. While the details vary, the taxes that homeowners pay are based upon these four components: 1. The property’s appraised value: What the local assessor determines the property is worth compared to other properties in the area. Also known as the property’s assessment, it might be based upon your home’s current market value or on a community-wide re- assessment that took place in the last few years. 2. The assessment ratio: For example, in Tennessee, taxes on homes and farms are based on 25% of their appraised value, while in other states, the ratio can vary from county to county. 3. The assessed value, which is determined by multiplying the property’s appraised value by the assessment ratio. Staying with Tennessee, if a home is worth $200,000, its assessed value would be $50,000 ($200,000 times .25). But in many parts of the country, real estate is assessed at “full valuation,” that is, at 100% of the property’s assessment. In these communities, the $200,000 house would have an assessed value of $200,000. 4. The tax rate, which is determined by the needs of local branches of government (e.g., county, town, and school boards), to cover the costs of schools, road maintenance, and so on. For example, your tax rate might be $2.7864 for every $100 of the assessed value, or . 027864. Whatever the tax rate is, and they do vary significantly from locality to locality, the math works the same. You pay that amount for every $100 your property is worth. Please don’t be put off by the math! Once you know these four components, it’s easy to calculate what taxes you’ll be expected to pay on your property. First figure out the assessed value. Then multiply that by the tax rate. If your assessed value is $2000,000 and the tax rate is .027864, your tax bill will be $5,572.80 for that year. Yikes! Let’s go through this same example in slow motion: Your home’s appraised value is $200,000. Multiply that by the assessment ratio in your community, which we’ll say is 100%. That means the assessed value of your property is also $200,000. Multiply that assessed value by the tax rate of .027864 to figure out what you’re expected to pay for that year: $5,572.80. Now it’s your turn! To find what your tax should be, multiply your home’s appraised value $_______________ by the assessment ratio in your community ______%, to get the assessed value of your property – $___________. Multiply that assessed value by the tax rate of ______% to figure out what you owe: $_____________. While math errors are not to be expected in the Cyber Age, it pays to double-check the math – especially if you’re the kind of person who balances your checkbook regularly. As a first- time home buyer, I know I will be taking a close look at the calculations. Tip: Becoming familiar with the terminology and the formula will help you in your encounters with the assessor and hearing officers. Pick Your Battles Carefully-------KNOWLEDGEFINANCIAL.COM While it takes some effort, it’s well worth investing the time and energy to make sure you aren’t paying more in property taxes than is fair. Remember, you may end up with a tax break … not only for this year… but for years to come. Sounds great, doesn’t it? But railing against high tax rates won’t get you anywhere. Decisions about them are out of the control of the local officials who can take another look at your tax bill. Of the four components that go into calculating your tax bill, the only one you have a chance of getting changed locally is the assessment, the amount that the assessor decided your home is worth, aka its appraised value. Everything else requires the involvement of legislators and other policy-makers. By all means, get involved in the political process! Just don’t expect your tax bill to show an immediate response. So … back to what is possible for your current tax bill … If you bought at the height of the market, when prices were at their highest (like I did) and your assessment reflects the price you paid, even though the market really took a dive where you live, you may have an especially good case for getting that amount lowered. After all, if you tried to sell the house now, you’d get less than you paid for it, maybe a lot less, thanks to the subprime mortgage meltdown. What’s Happening to Property Values? According to the Center for Responsible Lending, which expects some 2 million subprime foreclosures, the high foreclosure rate will result “in a severe drain on property values – even for families paying their mortgages faithfully every month – and will cause 44.5 million homes to lose a total of $223 billion in wealth over the next few years, most of it in 2008 and 2009.” Whether you’re a new homeowner or not, it’s well worth it to double-check your assessment. Math errors, incorrect classifications, and out-of-date information are just a few of the reasons that your assessment might be just plain wrong. It’s a safe bet that the process for getting your assessment changed will be somewhat involved -- it always is. It’s likely to be especially challenging this year because property values are heading down throughout the country as more and more homes go into foreclosure. As a result, some communities are taking a fresh look at local property values. An increasing number of people are going through the grievance process to get their property taxes lowered. That is, following the detailed local rules, they are trying to show that their property’s assessment is too high, either because of errors or because of how their tax bite compares with other homes in the community.---KNOWLEDGEFINANCIAL. COM |
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