Your tax debt has to jump over 4 hurdles to be forever written off in bankruptcy. But if it does, that tax is history.
"Straight" Chapter 7 bankruptcy can give some relief for dealing with your back and current income taxes, but Chapter 13 can help so much more.
If you were already on the financial edge and just found out you owe a bunch of income taxes, here is how bankruptcy can help.
If you owe income taxes, and are at the point that the IRS is about to seize your assets, you need to consider bankruptcy. It can help in surprising ways.
Filing bankruptcy can buy you a little time or a lot of time, enough time either to transition to a new home or to save your home.
Bankruptcy protects your paycheck because it's more powerful than a creditor's garnishment court order.
If your financial life is legally simple, your bankruptcy will likely be simple. What is is about your financial life that makes for a not so simple bankruptcy case?
Three more practical ways that bankruptcy works to let you take control of your debts, even those that can't be written off.
Here's how bankruptcy actually works, and works well, even when a significant debt or two can't be written off.
Don't disregard bankruptcy as an option just because it does not write off the debt which is your immediate headache. There's likely some good medicine for that headache after all.
Even without mentioning the word "bankruptcy," the most important court decision in years may still have a huge effect on future bankruptcies. How? Possibly by greatly reducing the need to file bankruptcies resulting from medical debts.
In bankruptcy, are you allowed to favor: 1) creditors with collateral, so that you can keep the collateral; 2) creditors toward whom you have special loyalty; and 3) creditors who have extraordinary leverage against you?
A mere list of the many ways that Chapter 13 can help save a home can start sounding dry. So here's a powerful example that shows off some of its extraordinary advantages.
Chapter 13 is often the best option for holding onto your home. That may be simply because it solves one of your major home debt problems, or instead because it solves a bunch of them all in one package.
Could your small business survive and even thrive if you could just get better terms for payment of your back tax debts?