A Seattle real estate owner worth an estimated $43 million routed $4.7 million of rental income through two shell companies that had been inactive since 1999, kept it off his returns, and hid it from…
How to Request an Extension for Filing Your Taxes
To file for an extension on your federal income taxes means that you are informing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that you will not be able to file your income tax return by the April…
Form 8938 – Statement of Specified Foreign Financial Assets
Use Form 8938 to report your specified foreign financial assets if the total value of all the specified foreign financial assets in which you have an interest is more than the appropriate reporting threshold.
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Form 1127 – Application to Pay Taxes Late Due to Hardship
Use this form if you will owe specific tax classifications, and paying the tax at the time it is due will cause an undue hardship.
Form 4868 – Automatic Extension of Time To File Income Tax Return
Use this form to apply for 6 more months (4 if “out of the country” and a U.S. citizen or resident) to file Form 1040, 1040NR, 1040NR-EZ, 1040-PR, or 1040-SS.
Pub. 549 – The IRS Collection Process
This publication provides a general description of the IRS collection process. The collection process is a series of actions that the IRS can take to collect the taxes you owe if you don’t voluntarily pay…
Form 4506T – Request for Transcript of Tax Return
Form 4506-T is used to retrieve past tax transcripts that are on file with the IRS. The document must be signed and dated by you, thus giving a third-party permission to retrieve your tax data.