Tax resolution services
Tax problems arrive in a handful of recognizable shapes. Someone opens a letter they don't understand. Money disappears from a paycheck. A stack of unfiled years finally catches up. An audit notice lands.
The programs that resolve those situations are different from one another, and choosing the wrong one costs time you may not have. What follows is how the work is organized here — grouped by what's actually happening to you, rather than by IRS terminology.
If you're not sure which group you fall into, that's normal. Start here
Stop IRS collection
When something has already started. Wage garnishment, a frozen bank account, a lien on your property, or a Revenue Officer making contact. These are the situations where the number of options still open depends on how quickly someone acts.
Wage garnishment release · Bank levy release · Tax lien resolution
Resolve what's owed
When the question is what you'll actually pay. There is more room here than most people assume — settlements for less than the balance, payment plans sized to what you can genuinely afford, hardship status that pauses collection entirely, and penalty relief that a great many taxpayers qualify for and never claim.
Offer in Compromise · IRS payment plans · Currently Not Collectible · Penalty abatement · Fresh Start
Get back on file
When returns haven't been filed. Three years or fifteen. This is the most common situation in the practice and the one people are most reluctant to raise. It's also frequently the situation where the balance drops once the work is done properly.
Unfiled and back tax returns · Back tax preparation
Audits and disputes
When you don't agree with what the IRS says you owe. An examination in progress, an assessment made while you weren't participating, or liability for a return your spouse or former spouse was responsible for.
Audit representation · Innocent spouse relief · Appeals and audit reconsideration
A CPA works your case, not a processing department
Every case here is reviewed and worked by Katherine Johnson — a licensed CPA since 1996 and a Certified Tax Resolution Specialist. Her team in the Georgetown office gathers documents, requests transcripts and assembles your file. Katherine reads it, sets the strategy, and deals with the IRS on your behalf.
That's a meaningful difference from how the large national firms operate, where the person who signs you up and the department that works the file are rarely connected. More on why that matters
The same four steps, whatever the problem
A conversation.
Tell us what's happening. No documents, nothing to prepare.
Your actual IRS account.
Most of what matters isn't in the letters — it's in your transcripts. We pull them, and Katherine finds out what the IRS really has on file, including how much time is left on the collection clock.
A plan you understand.
What she found, what your realistic options are, what she recommends and why, and what it costs — before any work starts.
She handles the IRS.
Once she's representing you, the correspondence and the calls come to her.
And what we'll refer out
Criminal tax matters, Tax Court litigation and bankruptcy filings need a tax attorney. If your situation calls for one, Katherine will say so in the first conversation and point you toward someone — not after you've paid.
Current-year tax preparation, bookkeeping and business accounting are handled through Katherine's separate accounting practice rather than here. Back-tax preparation, which is part of resolving a tax problem, is done here.