So you were expecting a tax refund from the IRS after you filed a tax return. Insteasd of getting your refund, the IRS sent you a letter saying that your refund was used (garnished) to satisfy your back tax debt. What is going on? This means that you have a back tax liablility with the IRS and the IRS will take your refund to satidfy that debt. If you got your refund check garnished and you were unaware you owed the IRS, you need to take care of this situation fast. The IRS can start enforced collections against you and go as far as garnishment of your pay and levy your bank accounts. You can find out more at wallysworldoftaxes.blogspot.com.
If the debt is on a shared account, then yes, the wife's pay can be garnished even if the husband was the one who ran the debt up.
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Not if it is creditor debt, such as credit cards.
You are likely to have your wages garnished. Your credit cards will be cancelled and liens may be placed on property.
Yes. Virginia use federal income garnishment laws. The maximum percentage of disposable income that can be garnished for creditor debt is 25%, with 30x minimum wage ($154.50 weekly based) being exempt from garnishment. All Social Security, government pensions, public assistance and most private pension benefits are exempt from creditor garnishment or levy.
Yes. If you owe the federal government money, the Department of the Treasury can withhold your income tax refund to satisfy the debt.
And the out of state income is from Alabama
Not if you have left the unit. Federal law prohibits government subsidies from being used to pay a past debt. However, if you have other income, a judge could conclude that that income can be garnished to pay the debt.
Yes
Yes. Unreturned unemployment benefits overpayments may be deducted from your federal income tax refund.
Yes - the refund is an asset - which the card company can use to offset your debt !
Yes, if the agency she owes money to has filed paperwork with the IRS and/or your state tax agency. If they garnish the joint refund, you can submit an injured spouse claim which is a request to have the refund split (usually according to how much of the income on the return belongs to each of you). The amount of the refund that belongs to her will be applied to her outstanding debt and the amount of the refund that belongs to you will be sent to you. You have a limited time to make this claim after you are notified that the refund was withheld to pay her debt, so read your notice carefully. If it's a joint debt, then you cannot make this claim because you both owe the money.Usually tax refunds are only garnished by other government groups (federal, state, or local), publicly funded schools, and student loan companies, but there may be others.
Yes, Georgia adheres to the basic federal wage garnishment guidelines, with a maximum of 25% of disposable income subject to garnishment, with the first $154.50 of weekly wages being totally exempt.
my husbands checks have been garnished now for a year and a half he has paid about 10,000 and now they want to garnish our intire tax refund and we are in over our head in debt we got a foreclosure letter that if we dont pay 4,000 we will loose our home the only way we can stop this is to use our income tax refund is this enough grounds for extreme hardship on your family
If you owe back taxes, or owe the social security, have a judgment aginest you the taxes can be garnished.
If the debt is on a shared account, then yes, the wife's pay can be garnished even if the husband was the one who ran the debt up.
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