The 5 Best Tax Relief Companies of 2020
Get the tax debt relief you deserve We publish unbiased reviews; our opinions are our own and are not influenced by payments from advertisers. Learn about our independent review process and partners in our advertiser disclosure. Approximately 114 million Americans had unpaid tax debt in 2018, according to figures from the Internal Revenue Service. The total dollar amount equaled $131 billion in tax debt, including penalties and interest that year.1 Many people fall into tax debt because they don’t realize how much they owe due to filing errors or incomplete bookkeeping records. Others don’t have the money to pay their taxes. Some think they can avoid filing taxes and it won’t catch up with them. But the U.S. government earns too much revenue from taxes to let taxpayers slide. In 2018, the IRS filed 410,220 federal tax liens and 639,025 notices of levies. The agency seized the property of 275,000 taxpayers. Ignoring tax debt is rarely a solution to a problem that will only grow over ti...