What's an IRS Revenue Officer?

Welcome everybody to our new YouTube video uh today we will talk about IRS Revenue officers or IRS Ro's as we like to call it and IRS Revenue officer is the most senior employee at the IRS that can collect taxes so if you have a revenue officer assigned you are dealing with the most senior person the most aggressive person at the IRS and uh their job is to try to collect as much money from you as possible so we'll discuss a few topics today about a revenue officer especially now that the IRS is is top of mind for congress they are trying to spend more money uh with the IRS and get the IRS more funding which means hiring more agents and officers which means more taxpayers are going to get contacted by Revenue officers on a normal basis the first way the IRS corresponds with people is via mail that's their number one correspondence especially with all the scammers out there IRS won't call you initially they also will not send you emails but they will send mail now with a revenue officer the initial way that the revenue officer will contact you is usually in person so Revenue officers are field officers meaning they're not sitting behind a desk all the time they're out in the field they're coming to your house or your place of business they are checking out what's in your driveway how your house looks they want to conduct an interview get some financial information from you and they do that as a form of intimidation so you know you don't have time to come up with an answer and you're talking to them directly so that's how they first get involved and when they do get involved their main job is two things number one is to secure any delinquent tax returns meaning they want to make sure all your returns are filed and number two how can they collect the most amount of money as quickest possible and usually they'll kind of force you to sell assets or put you in an uncomfortable position so that you're paying a very high monthly amount and that's what they're trying to do when they get assigned is get the tax returns and also make sure that you're paying as much as possible now a revenue officer gets assigned in a very limited situations but once they are assigned you're stuck with that person you're stuck with that officer so if you owe over 250 000 to the IRS combined that's a very quick way to get a revenue officer assigned if you have a bunch of delinquent tax returns more than three years of unfiled returns that's also another way that a revenue officer can get assigned if you're delaying collections or evading or doing something to position yourself to continuously owe and evade the IRS that's another way a revenue officer can get assigned lastly if you're getting really close to the expiration dates on your balances and your balances with the IRS are coming to expire then in that situation a revenue officer can get assigned as well so you want to make sure that the revenue officer is actually from the IRS so anytime you talk to them make sure you get their badge number their ID number ask them specific questions about who their manager is they have to report to somebody and a lot of Revenue officers don't want to provide their managers information but that's really helpful because if you can't contact them or the revenue officers getting too aggressive or you need another set of eyes to take a look at the case you can absolutely ask for not only their badge ID but also you can ask them for their manager's contact information a lot of Revenue officers are aggressive they get uh you know Kudos at the office when they collect money especially from a taxpayer who has been evading and the revenue office you can get them to to pay a large amount that's how they get you know credit at the IRS that's how their performance is evaluated sometimes so their main job is to be aggressive they're going to try to be your friend and tell you that they're here to help you but as you know the famous saying goes uh never trust somebody that says I'm here from the government and I'm here to help they're usually not that they just want to collect as much as possible now the great news is that if you hire an attorney to help you they take over full communication with the IRS in that situation the IRS won't be able to call you the revenue officer can't show up to your place of business or your residence under the power of attorney the revenue officer can only talk to the attorney on on record uh and so that really eases a lot of concerns for our clients because they don't need to conduct any interviews they don't need to provide any financial information they only will deal with our office and not with the IRS so if you do have a revenue officer assigned it's very difficult to navigate on your own we do suggest you hire somebody whether it's your CPA an attorney or enrolled agent ultimately you should hire somebody that has an understanding of how the IRS works and what that process is if you guys need more information you can 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