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Tax Help Fees in General

 Our fee for IRS tax settlements, audit help and basic tax help is typically $500 to $5,500 as an initial retainer. Most cases can be resolved within this fee range with favorable results. Having said that, some tax help and audit help can be accomplished with just a phone call or letter. In these situations, our fee is $250.

However, if more time is involved or if we quickly discover that additional assistance is needed such as tax court and litigation, we will point you in the right direction of other trusted tax professionals.

Power of Attorney: To properly work with the IRS on your IRS tax settlement or offers in compromise, we will need a signed Power of Attorney to efficiently act on your behalf and a supporting letter signed and notarized. Any negotiated settlement of your tax debt will always be presented to you for your approval. But the process is better served if we can speak freely with taxing agencies about your tax debt case. 

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Tax Audit

Our expert audit help begins with expert knowledge of the complex audit process. There are basically two types of audits: correspondence and field. 

Correspondence audits are simply mailed letters that the IRS sends to taxpayers requesting more information, adjusting tax returns, etc. 75% of all audits are done via the mail.

The other audit is in the field, or face to face interview which makes up the remaining 25% of all audits. The interview can take place in a variety of places- your local IRS office, your accountant’s office, your home or your place of business. 


Sorry, Starbuck’s and remote desert areas in Nevada are not acceptable audit locations. To keep the IRS out of your business office, you must demonstrate that it would be disruptive to your operation.

Audit rates are roughly 1% for those earning less than $200,000 annually and climb up to 12% for those earning more than $1M. S Corp owners face about a 0.4% audit risk, but over 67% of S Corp audits result in a substantial adjustment to the shareholder’s personal tax return.

Yes, there are audit triggers. The IRS uses an array of algorithms that basically take past success of tax recovery and pit it against your tax return. For example, if their success rate is 75% on recovering 5% additional tax on travel expenses, and you have a lot of travel expenses, they will determine their Vegas-type odds to determine your worth. They simply weight the cost of enforcement against the expected benefit.

How We Fight For You

When responding to the IRS, be prompt, be complete and don’t overshare. More importantly, get tax help and audit help from a qualified group of tax professionals. We pick Taxes in Time, PLLC.

If you are chosen for a face to face, or field audit there are some rules of the road. Similar to correspondence audits, be complete and don’t overshare. Also, be courteous. IRS agents are fathers and mothers, and have lives outside of the enforcement world. 

Stay on point, but also understand that there might be some give and take. A good example is unsubstantiated mileage- if you are claiming 18,000 miles but the IRS agent is allowing you to claim 12,000 without a mileage log, you might want to count yourself lucky. The agent could easily disallow all the miles without an accurate record.

These are just a few things you should be considering in these types of situations, but it is always best to have a trusted tax professional by your side!

WHEN RESULTS MATTER, WE DELIVER RESULTS!

"I AM A RETIRED MILITARY VETERAN AND MY SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS WERE BEING GARNISHED FROM PAST DUE TAX DEBTS. BUT RYAN LONGMIRE AND TAXES IN TIME SAVED ME FROM GETTING MY SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS GARNISHED. THEY WERE ABLE TO GET MY TAX DEBT REDUCED TO $929 FROM $36,884.99. I WAS ABLE TO PAY MY TAX DEBT AND ENJOY MY RETIREMENT!"
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- HAROLD MURPHY