If you're considering filing bankruptcy, should you first prepare and submit any unfiled income tax returns? Should you prioritize paying them?
The huge emergency coronavirus law will provide, "as rapidly as possible," over 80 percent of American adults with money, many getting $1,200.
Chapter 13's advantages in paying off your priority income taxes become clearer when you see what you don't have to pay.
Do you expect to owe income taxes for the 2018 tax year? Starting January 1, 2019 you can wrap that tax into a new Chapter 13 payment plan.
Chapter 13 is a riskier, longer, and maybe more expensive way to escape a dischargeable income tax deb--but may still be your best option.
Found so much interesting about taxes that wouldn't fit into our last blog, so had to give you more. Such as the income and taxes of the wealthiest tax return filers.
Can anything about taxes ever be fun?! We honestly think this is interesting stuff. Happy April 15th!
To avoid owing income taxes April 15 of NEXT year, file a partial-year tax return and pay the tax on it through your Chapter 13 case.
Your tax debt has to jump over 4 hurdles to be forever written off in bankruptcy. But if it does, that tax is history.