The IRS counts on you not knowing how this works.
Transcript codes, statute clocks, payment designation rules, hearing elections that protect or burn your deadlines. After 32 years inside these files, tax attorney Darrin T. Mish writes down what the notices never explain.
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Years on file
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What "insider" means here
The IRS's own paperwork
Your account transcript already tells the whole story: assessment dates, statute clocks, holds, exam flags. These files teach you to read it the way a practitioner does.
Rules that cut both ways
Payment designation, hearing elections, threshold pay-downs, deemed-acceptance deadlines. The same rulebook the IRS runs on contains the provisions that protect you.
No mythology
No pennies-on-the-dollar promises, no secret loopholes that do not exist. Just how the system actually works, from someone who has worked it for 32 years.
Start with these files
All 22 files →Transcripts & Deadlines · 5 min
The IRS Transcript Code Cheat Sheet
Your IRS account transcript tells the whole story of your case in three-digit codes. Here is how to read the ones that matter.
Transcripts & Deadlines · 4 min
CSED Tolling Traps: How Taxpayers Accidentally Give the IRS More Time
The 10-year collection clock pauses for specific events, and several of them are things taxpayers do to themselves without knowing the cost.
Settlements · 5 min
Offer in Compromise: The Rules Insiders Use and Brochures Skip
Three offer types, a 24-month deemed-acceptance statute, asset exclusions, and a refund policy change most people never heard about.
Collections · 4 min
CDP Hearing Strategy: Timely vs. Equivalent, and Why the Choice Is Strategic
The collection due process hearing is powerful, but it pauses your statute. The equivalent hearing trades power for a running clock.
Business · 4 min
The Payroll Tax Payment Secret: Designate, or the IRS Chooses for You
Voluntary payments can be directed to the trust fund portion first, protecting owners personally. Undesignated payments get applied the way that preserves IRS leverage.
Collections · 4 min
Florida Tenancy by the Entireties and the One Creditor It Does Not Stop
Entireties ownership defeats most creditors of one spouse. The federal tax lien is the exception, by Supreme Court decision.
The IRS counts on you not knowing how this works.
One call with someone who has worked these files for 32 years tells you where you actually stand.
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