IRS Tax Relief Brooklyn, NY Get Help Across Kings County

A payment plan is how most people in Brooklyn handle a balance they can't clear at once. If you owe $50,000 or less in total, a streamlined installment agreement is usually available without a detailed financial statement.

Owe more, and you'll fill out Form 433-A. The IRS then checks your spending against Kings County standards. For housing and utilities in 2026, that's $4,631 a month for a family of four, about $1,370 less than the figure the IRS uses for Manhattan.

When your real rent runs higher than the standard, the IRS may allow more if you can show why. An enrolled agent on our team gathers the lease, the utility bills, and proof of household size before anything is sent.

Plenty of people in Brooklyn mix a W-2 job with side income. When the side income goes untaxed, the IRS can levy the paycheck. That comes after a CP504 notice and a final LT11 or Letter 1058, which gives you 30 days to ask for a Collection Due Process hearing.

Once the levy starts, your employer keeps sending the IRS everything above the Publication 1494 exempt amount, check after check, until it's released. A release most often comes with an installment agreement or currently not collectible status, because the IRS generally won't keep levying under an active agreement.

A lien and a levy hit differently. A lien is the IRS's public claim on your property. For a homeowner in Brooklyn, it surfaces the moment you try to sell or refinance, because the title search finds it. A discharge can free one property for a sale, and subordination can let a refinance go through.

A levy takes the money. Clients and card processors can be levied for what they owe your business, and a levied bank account is frozen for 21 days before the bank pays the IRS. Those three weeks are when we press for a bank levy release, usually alongside a plan the IRS can accept.

Currently not collectible status tells the IRS that, once basic living costs are paid, nothing is left over. The IRS pauses collection, so no new levies. Interest keeps building, a lien can still be filed, and the IRS reviews your finances again down the road.

Local standards set the floor. The IRS allows $417 a month to run one car in the New York metro area, plus an ownership allowance if you have a car payment. A contractor or delivery driver with a work vehicle often needs both, and we show that on Form 433-A next to your real rent.

Cash-heavy businesses like salons, delis, and restaurants draw questions when bank deposits don't match the income on the return. Most audits start by mail. If yours becomes an in-person exam, the letter tells you where and when the IRS wants to meet.

An enrolled agent with your Power of Attorney can go in your place, present the records, and answer the examiner. The borough's IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center is at 420 Albee Square West, by appointment at 844-545-5640, but you don't need to visit it for us to represent you.

If an audit of a joint return turns up income a former spouse kept from you, innocent spouse relief may separate you from that debt.