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If you owe less than $50,000 in tax, penalties and interest combined, a long-term payment plan usually doesn't require a full financial disclosure. For most people in the Bronx, that means picking a monthly amount that clears the balance within the IRS timeframe and then paying on time, every time.

Owe more, or can't afford that payment, and the IRS asks for Form 433-A. It measures your rent and utilities against the Bronx County standard: $2,839 a month for one person and $3,917 for a family of four in 2026. If you get around by subway or bus, the IRS allows $220 a month for transit.

We build the 433-A from your actual lease, bills and pay stubs. Then an enrolled agent works the number with the IRS so the payment is one your household can keep making.

Private health care and social assistance employ more than 103,000 people in Bronx County, so many of the wage levies we see land on hospital, nursing home and home care paychecks. The IRS doesn't start there. First comes a CP504, then a final LT11 or Letter 1058, which gives you 30 days to ask for a hearing.

Once the levy reaches payroll, your employer sends the IRS everything above the Publication 1494 exempt amount, check after check, and it doesn't end on its own. For workers in the Bronx, we file Power of Attorney, get missing returns in, and ask the IRS to release the levy as a payment plan or hardship status is set up.

• CP504: the IRS intends to levy
• LT11 or Letter 1058: final notice that starts a 30-day hearing window
• Wage levy: continues every payday until the IRS releases it

A federal tax lien puts the IRS's claim on the public record. It doesn't take money, but it attaches to everything you own. For a family in the Bronx trying to sell or refinance a two-family house, that's usually the moment it turns up.

A levy is the IRS actually taking money. With a bank levy, the bank freezes the account and holds the funds for 21 days before sending them, and that's the window to request a bank levy release. For a bodega or salon, a frozen business account can mean a missed payroll, so it pays to move fast.

For liens there are three tools: discharge, which frees one property so a sale can close; subordination, which lets a lender go first on a refinance; and withdrawal, which can follow a direct debit plan on a balance of $25,000 or less.

Some households in the Bronx have nothing left after rent, groceries and the light bill. In that case the IRS can classify the account as currently not collectible. Levies stop, but the balance stays, interest keeps running, a lien can still be filed, and the IRS checks your income again later.

The decision comes down to your 433-A against the IRS allowances. For one person living alone in Bronx County, the 2026 housing and utilities allowance is $2,839 a month. If your income barely covers that plus food, transit and medical bills, there may be nothing left for the IRS, and we document it line by line.

One more thing worth knowing: the 10-year collection clock keeps running while you're in this status. If your situation doesn't improve, some balances reach the end of that window.

Most audits arrive by mail and ask about a few lines on one return. If the IRS wants to meet in person, it can mean an appointment at an IRS office, and the one in the Bronx is at 1200 Waters Place. A cash business should expect questions about bank deposits that don't match reported sales.

With Power of Attorney on file, an enrolled agent goes in your place, answers the examiner and keeps the conversation on the years and items under review. We also take on payroll audits of Form 941 filings, and innocent spouse relief when an ex-partner's unreported income is behind the bill.