Tax Relief in West Palm Beach, FL: Get IRS Help Across Palm Beach County

For a balance of $50,000 or less, an installment agreement usually goes through without a full financial disclosure. Above that line, the IRS wants Form 433-A and measures your monthly costs against its own local allowances.

In Palm Beach County, the 2026 housing and utilities allowance for a family of four is $3,333 a month. If your real rent and utilities in West Palm Beach run higher, the IRS can still accept the extra when it is documented and necessary. An enrolled agent on our team makes that case with your lease and bills.

The IRS warns before it garnishes. A CP504 comes first, then the final LT11 or Letter 1058, which opens a 30-day window to request a Collection Due Process hearing. Miss that window and your employer starts holding back every dollar above the Publication 1494 exempt amount.

Palm Beach County runs on hospital shifts and club work: more than 100,000 health care jobs and about 12,000 at golf courses and country clubs. When a levy hits one of those paychecks, we file Power of Attorney and request a release tied to a payment plan or hardship status.

A federal tax lien sits on the public record and follows your property. A levy is the IRS actually taking something: a paycheck, a bank balance, or money a customer owes your business. Both can land on the same household, but they are solved in different ways.

In Palm Beach County, we often see a lien surface right before a home sale closes. We can apply for a discharge so the sale goes through, or a subordination for a refinance. For a frozen account, a bank levy release has to happen inside the 21 days the bank holds the money.

Retirees on a fixed income and workers whose hours dry up after season often reach a point where no payment is possible. That is what currently not collectible status is for. The IRS stops levies while it is in place, but interest keeps running, a lien may still be filed, and your income gets reviewed again later.

For one person in Palm Beach County, the IRS housing allowance is $2,415 a month. If your necessary costs leave nothing over that and the other standards, we document the hardship on Form 433-A and request the status.

Most audits are handled by mail. When one becomes an office audit, the closest IRS office is the Taxpayer Assistance Center at 625 N. Flagler Dr. in West Palm Beach, which sees people by appointment only.

With Power of Attorney on file, an enrolled agent goes in your place and answers the examiner. The same file can surface payroll tax and 941 problems for a business, or innocent spouse relief if a joint return's debt belongs to an ex. If you qualify on income, the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County runs a free tax clinic too.