Korntved & Associates
Your Place For Solutions To Tax Problems.
Our Settlement
Results – Compared to the National average as submitted to Congress by the IRS.
How
does anyone find out what their chances are for success in IRS settlement
cases? The answer is found in the annual report submitted to Congress by
Taxpayer Advocate every year.
The Taxpayer Advocate Office (TAO)
monitors IRS effectiveness for many programs and recommends changes to Congress
every year. One of the programs
monitored is the offer in compromise program. TAO always includes notes in
their report regarding amount of offers submitted and accepted as well as
offers that were deemed ‘not processible’.
Links have also been provided to
shortened versions of the complete reports. Those versions only contain the
offer in compromise statistics. Shortened versions are simply subsets of the
complete report with notes added for clarity.
TAO offer
statistics for 2007 TAO offer statistics for 2008
The
notes attached to the shortened files have a somewhat confrontational tone. That is because the IRS only gives out offer
statistics to get the results they want people to see. After a while it gets
old.
LOOK
CAREFULLY AT THE TAO REPORTS AGAIN. TAO reports include percentage estimates
for offers deemed as not processible. These offer types are NEVER
included in IRS data. They are ALWAYS SUBMITTED and ALWAYS REJECTED – which
causes the actual acceptance rate for offers to drop much lower than the one
given by the IRS. No one would know these facts if TAO did not estimate these
numbers in the annual reports!
TAO
did something different in 2008! See shortened statistics with notes. TAO
listed the percentage of returned non-processible offers. That means the ACTUAL
acceptance rate for offers can be calculated. And we have done that.
We know longer have to guess how many
offers are accepted. We know the number and it is low!
Korntved & Associates has calculated
the actual acceptance rate at 10% for 2008 when ALL offers are included.
We have to assume that 2007 is similar – certainly not higher.
THERE IS GOOD
NEWS. OUR SETTLEMENT RATE IS ALMOST 85%!
We get
successful settlements for about 85 out of every 100 people – and most of the
time in the VERY FIRST
NO ONE EVEN COMES CLOSE TO US. Don’t
believe us? Call someone else BEFORE you call us. In fact, call all of our
competitors BEFORE you call us. Then call us. You will find out why we make our
claims in just a few minutes over the phone.
We
wade in the mud EVERY SINGLE DAY with tax agencies. We know how they work. We
know what they look for in settlement. We know many of the settlement personnel
personally because we have been doing so many settlements for so long.
Our
process is proven. It works! When done properly, there is no better process
anywhere.
Call for FREE CONSULTATION. Get in the
85% that get successful settlements!