What the IRS Actually Does After You Miss a Payment Deadline (And How to Get Ahead of It)

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When you miss an IRS payment deadline, the agency doesn’t wait to see what happens next. It moves through a structured enforcement sequence, each step more consequential than the last. Understanding that sequence before enforcement reaches you is the difference between negotiating from a position of options and scrambling to stop a levy that’s already […]