You Received An IRS CP504 Notice, Now What?

The IRS sends a CP504 Notice when a taxpayer has failed to pay a balance owed.  The CP504 Notice is a Notice of Intent to Levy issued pursuant to Section 6331(d) of the Internal Revenue Code.  If a taxpayer fails to make payments immediately or otherwise address the Notice, the IRS can proceed with a levy on a taxpayer’s income and bank accounts, as well seize a taxpayer’s property or rights to property to satisfy the outstanding balance.

Under §6331(d), the CP504 Notice must be provided to a taxpayer at least 30 days prior to taking action against a taxpayer’s property (unless the IRS has made a finding that the collection of that tax is in jeopardy as described in §6331(a)).

As described in §6331(d)(4), the CP504 Notice must contain certain information, including:

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Billionaire Tax Proposal

This comment is based on the interpretation of the proposal found in this post Proposed And Updated Version Of Billionaire Tax. I don’t have a week to read and digest the 100+ pages of the proposed law but based on the description in the proposal here are my comments:

The US currently has (in effect) separate tax systems for: Employees, small business people, those who live off investment income, Americans abroad, undocumented aliens, certain racial minorities (see the work of Dorothy Brown) and now a new tax system for billionaires is proposed. So, in America of today: Congress asks tell me who you are and we will tell you which tax system applies to you. (How can this be fair?) The proposed tax system for billionaires borrows from some of the most vicious aspects of the tax system for Americans abroad and would apply them to billionaires.

Prospectively – The billionaires tax once is is up and running:

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