Payroll Tax Filing Services - Legal Advice

The IRS is extremely strict when it comes to filing payroll taxes. If you own a business that has employees, you should strive to submit all payroll tax payments on time. While this sounds like a no-brainer, best laid plans don’t always work out the way you intend them to. This is why we have access to a team of lawyers that provide payroll tax filing services and legal advice to make sure you do not fall victim of IRS penalties and legal trouble.

Our lawyers offer payroll tax filing services that can be priceless in protecting yourself from the wrath of the IRS. It’s a little known, yet vitally important fact that business owners or employees in charge of the accounting and payroll departments of a company can be personally penalized by the IRS if they are found to have failed to deposit payroll taxes. Lawyers know and understand this – that you personally could be charged with a crime – which is why tax filing advice from attorneys is far more effective that hiring a CPA.

Our experienced attorneys can get the IRS to waive fees and penalties if they can prove the failure to make payroll tax deposits was unintentional and that there was a reasonable cause for the business to miss paying taxes.

Late Payroll Tax Filing Penalties

The size of the penalty for failing to pay payroll taxes on time or in totality varies depending on how late the payment is and the total dollar amount that is overdue. For payroll tax payments made just 1-5 days late, the penalty is very minor: Usually just 2 percent of the past-due total. This is often a fee that our attorneys can get waived if they are able to prove you were not negligent nor deliberately withholding payroll tax.

For deposits made a little later, 6-15 days, the payroll tax penalty rises to 5% of the total overdue amount. This is again an amount often waived.

In more severe cases, for deposits made 16 or more days late, the penalty amount is 10% of the past due amount. Payroll tax penalties rise to 15% of the past due amount if the IRS has sent a notice requesting the tax due and it remains unpaid for more than 10 days after that notice was received by the business. If this has happened to you, you must act right away in enlisting the help of our attorney-driven payroll tax filing service.