Owe the IRS? Get a straight answer, not a sales pitch.
Back taxes, unfiled returns, and collection notices almost always have a defined resolution path. The problem is not knowing which one applies to you. That is what the Resolution Options Report is for: your transcripts, your numbers, and your options in writing.
Reviewed personally by Tim Simons, EA. Fixed fees published below and quoted in writing. No call center, no commission-based "investigators."
The IRS tells you where you are in the process. Most people just don't read the map.
Proposed Changes and Balance-Due Notices
Early in the sequence. You have real options here: dispute, correct, or set terms before collections escalates. Responding late narrows every one of them.
Final Notice Of Intent To Levy
This one has a clock. You generally have 30 days to request a Collection Due Process hearing, which pauses levy action while your case is heard. Missing that window gives up leverage you do not get back.
Missing Returns Block Everything
The IRS will not approve an installment agreement or an offer in compromise while you are out of filing compliance. Step one is almost always getting the missing years filed, correctly, with your actual deductions instead of the IRS's substitute figures.
Resolution Runs On Your Numbers
Installment agreements, currently-not-collectible status, and offers in compromise are all driven by a financial analysis, not by negotiation theater. Done right, the numbers make the case for you.
Two phases. Both priced before you commit to anything.
Most firms hide pricing until you are on the phone. We publish it: the call is free, the report is $1,500 flat, and resolution is quoted in writing before work begins.
- IRS authorization filed so we can act on your behalf
- Full account transcript pull: every balance, penalty, and unfiled year, exactly as the IRS sees it
- Deadline and statute review, including any enforcement clocks already running
- The Resolution Options Report: your options in writing, the path we recommend, what it should cost, and how long it takes
- Unfiled return preparation for the years that need it
- Installment agreements and currently-not-collectible filings
- Offers in compromise where the financial analysis supports one
- Penalty relief pursued on every case: first-time abatement and reasonable-cause requests
- Notice response and hearing representation
Honest timelines. The IRS drives most of the calendar.
Transcripts and Written Report
Transcripts typically arrive within days of your signed authorization. The written report follows.
Filing Compliance
Depends on how many years and how complete your records are. Reconstructing records adds time; it is normal and workable.
Installment Agreements & CNC
Streamlined agreements move fastest once returns are current. Financially documented hardship cases take longer for review.
Penalty Relief Pursuit
We request first-time abatement or reasonable-cause relief wherever facts support it. First-time abatement resolves faster.
Offers in Compromise
IRS review of an offer commonly runs six months to a year. By statute, an un-decided offer within two years is deemed accepted.
Three steps. No pressure at any of them.
Five Questions
About two minutes. It tells us what stage you are in and how fast we need to move.
Free 15-Minute Call, Then The Report
Tim replies within one business day with a link to book your free call. If the report makes sense for your situation, we start it: transcripts, deadlines, your options in writing. $1,500, flat.
Fixed-Fee Resolution
If it makes sense to proceed, the scope and fee are already in writing. If your case does not need professional help, the report says that too, and you keep it.
Federally Licensed To Represent You Before The IRS. Full Stop.
Enrolled Agents hold unlimited practice rights before the IRS under Treasury Circular 230, the same representation rights as attorneys and CPAs in tax matters. It is the only federal credential built specifically for this work. Simonsgroup is a Washington, DC advisory firm established in 2010, not a national tax-relief operation running ads and outsourcing your file.
Authority: 31 C.F.R. Part 10 (Treasury Circular 230)
Tell us where things stand. We'll tell you what your options look like.
Five questions, about two minutes. Tim replies within one business day with your booking link for the free 15-minute call. Prefer to talk now? Call (202) 495-1404.
Asked by nearly everyone. Answered plainly.
Do I qualify for an offer in compromise?
Sometimes an offer in compromise is genuinely the right tool: resolving a balance for less than the assessed amount, when you qualify. Qualification depends on a financial analysis the IRS runs on your income, expenses, and assets, not on how aggressive your representative sounds. The report tells you if an offer is realistic before you spend a dollar pursuing one.
What does representation cost?
The 15-minute call is free. The Resolution Options Report is $1,500 flat: transcripts, deadline mapping, your options in writing. Resolution work starts at $4,500, set by complexity and quoted in writing after the report, and your $1,500 is credited in full if you move forward. No hourly meters, no surprise invoices.
Do the penalties ever come off?
Often, yes. The IRS grants first-time abatement to taxpayers with a clean recent compliance history, and reasonable-cause relief where the facts explain the lapse. We evaluate and request penalty relief on every resolution engagement as standard practice. When a penalty is removed, the interest charged on that penalty comes off with it. Interest on the underlying tax is statutory and generally stays, which is one more reason speed matters.
Other firms make everything free up front. Why charge for the report?
Our 15-minute call is free too. The difference is what comes next. The mills give away an "investigation" because it is a sales device. We charge for the report because the report is the product: your actual IRS transcripts analyzed and your options in writing, which you keep either way. And if you move forward, the full $1,500 credits toward your resolution fee.
I haven't filed in years. Am I in trouble?
You are in a common and fixable situation. Filing compliance is the entry ticket to every resolution option, and voluntarily coming forward puts you in a far better posture than waiting for the IRS to file substitute returns for you.
Will the IRS take my house or paycheck?
Levies and garnishments are real tools, but they come at the end of a documented sequence of notices, and each stage has response rights attached. Where you are in that sequence determines the urgency. That is the first thing the case review establishes.