April 14, 2010

Bankruptcy and Tax Debt

A San Francisco Bankruptcy Attorney discusses filing bankrutpcy to alleviate tax debt...

Bankruptcy is well known to have been used by people that cannot pay their debts to commercial organizations. What a lot of people don't realize is that bankruptcy can also be used against government organizations. The major revenue department of the U.S. government is the IRS and there are a lot tax payers that find it hard to cover their tax liabilities. One possible option is to file for bankruptcy on your tax debt.

There are two chapters that maybe used for bankruptcy, Chapter 13 and Chapter 7. Chapter 13 is called a reorganization bankruptcy which basically allows you a period of 3 to 5 years to get your financial affairs in order, whilst paying back a reduced amount of outstanding tax during this period. Usually any outstanding tax will incur interest payment penalties. The tax payments will not be reduced if the IRS has already issued a tax lien prior to your bankruptcy. This is because a tax lien becomes a secured debt. Chapter 7 is called a liquidation bankruptcy and can be used for debt that is over 3 years old. Filing a chapter 7 will remove your tax debt if the IRS has not issued a tax lien on you prior to you filing chapter 7. If the IRS have issued a tax lien to you, then the tax debt is held until you have removed yourself from chapter 7, when it will then become payable. You must plan out your financial obligations post chapter 7, before removing yourself from bankruptcy.

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