IRS Legal Counsel Blog

In every person he or she has the right and protect what he or she owns. If we are talking about wage garnishment then it is the right by every person to do anything he or she can in order to protect his or her salary from the creditors or to the Internal Revenue Service. The Internal Revenue Service is known for their authority when it comes to taxes as well as the collecting agency that given the power by the government to collect unresolved tax debt. And because they have the power, they can ask for a wage garnishment if they cannot collect your unresolved tax debt. By using wage garnishment they can get hold portion of your salary and 25% of it will be paid to your tax debt and this will go on until you pay to the last centavos. However wage garnishment will take effects only if they have a court order granting them to garnish someone’s salary but they must prove to the court that you really are a delinquent taxpayer and ignoring your obligation. Only 25% of your salary must be garnish by your employer for the reason that this is only allowed by the court. The court do not want any individual having a hard time making ends meet if all their salary will be garnish by the Internal Revenue Service. To avoid this problem you can get the service of a tax lawyer in order to handle your tax problem and be able to negotiate for a tax relief on your behalf. However, there are circumstances that when individual are having a really tough time in resolving their tax debt they opt to file for bankruptcy.

As a rule, wage garnishment law insist that your salary will be garnish but not enough reason to be fired from your job. Tax law protect every individual that are experiencing wage garnishment from their employers as well getting terminated from work. If you are being terminated because of wage garnishment then by law you have the right to file cases against your employer. As for the part of your employer, once he or she receive a court order of wage garnishment, he or she must abide by it and deduct your salary and pay off your debt to the Internal Revenue Service.

However, resolving your tax debt is the best thing you can do in order to avoid wage garnishment. Do not let it come down that your salary will be under a wage garnishment because not only you will suffer from this circumstances your family will also suffer from it. You need the assistance of a tax lawyer to help you resolve your tax problem as well as the assistance of tax relief so that you can settle your tax debt once and for all.