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Spousal Tax Relief

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Injured Spouse Tax Relief

If you have an unpaid tax bill from prior years, the IRS can take your refund for the current year and apply it against your old liability. The IRS can also take your refund for other reasons. For example, your refund can be applied against unpaid child support, spousal support and student loans.  

If you're married, you may have a refund due on a joint return. It's very likely that the IRS will try to seize that entire refund if either spouse has any kind of unpaid liability of the kinds described above. The IRS will often do this even if only one spouse owes the liability and the other spouse is entitled to his or her share of the refund.

If the IRS has applied your share of a refund against a liability owed by your spouse, you may be entitled to Injured Spouse Relief.  You may even be entitled to use the Injured Spouse rule to prevent the IRS from taking your refund in the first place.

If you are looking for an experienced tax attorney or a tax lawyer with experience dealing with the IRS than look no further than Fried & Rosefelt, P.A.  Located in Bethesda, Maryland and serving all of MD, VA and Washington DC as well as the rest of the U.S.

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