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Learn practical strategy ideas for managing Reasonable Collection Potential, including timing, income, expenses, assets, and planning moves that affect IRS outcomes.

Learn how dissipated assets affect an IRS Offer in Compromise, including the three-year lookback rule and how prior spending can increase your RCP.

If you cannot make your payroll tax deposits, learn how to create a new plan, stay compliant, contact the IRS early, and prevent the trust fund balance from growing.

Learn why the IRS treats missed payroll tax deposits harshly, including double revenue loss, trust fund rules, TFRP procedures, and stopping growing payroll tax debt

If the IRS assessed tax you don’t owe, a Doubt as to Liability Offer in Compromise (DATL OIC) may fix the error without appeals or court. Learn when and how it works.

Learn how smart taxpayers use year-end planning to get ahead of IRS collections, avoid new notices, and improve outcomes for OIC, CNC, or payment agreements.

Learn how IRS collections operate during Thanksgiving, what slows down, what doesn’t, and how holiday timing affects notices, levies, and your next steps.

Learn how Effective Tax Administration Offers in Compromise work, when the IRS accepts them, and the rare situations in IRM 5.8.11 where equity or hardship justifies relief.

Not all IRS debt is valid. Learn when to use a Doubt as to Liability Offer in Compromise (DATL OIC) to challenge tax you don’t owe—without going to court.