by Noah Green CPA CFE | Apr 30, 2026 | Behind the IRS Curtain, IRS Notices
Thread: A (Behind the IRS Curtain) A tax-resolution practitioner notices the same thing every September: the firm’s phone volume doubles. Clients who have been quiet for months suddenly call in a single week saying “I got a letter from the IRS.”...
by Noah Green CPA CFE | Apr 23, 2026 | Behind the IRS Curtain, IRS Collections & Payment Plans
Thread: A (Behind the IRS Curtain) A restaurant owner has been carrying a $180,000 payroll tax balance for two years. His case bounced around the IRS Automated Collection System for the first eighteen months and then moved into Field Collection. The new contact is a...
by Noah Green CPA CFE | Apr 16, 2026 | Behind the IRS Curtain
Thread: A (Behind the IRS Curtain) A founder who exited her company in 2019 receives an IRS letter in 2024. The letter doesn’t look like an audit notice from a few years earlier, it doesn’t reference a single tax year, it references three; it doesn’t...
by Noah Green CPA CFE | Apr 9, 2026 | Behind the IRS Curtain
Thread: A (Behind the IRS Curtain) A general contractor with $400,000 in Schedule C gross receipts and a software consultant with $400,000 in Schedule C gross receipts file roughly comparable returns in roughly comparable years. The contractor has a meaningfully...
by Noah Green CPA CFE | Apr 2, 2026 | Behind the IRS Curtain
Thread: A (Behind the IRS Curtain) A small-business owner files her return on a Thursday afternoon in March. By Friday morning she has the IRS e-file acceptance email. By Friday evening she is checking the “Where’s My Refund?” tracker on her phone...
