{"id":606592,"date":"2026-07-30T20:24:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/story\/606592\/irs-collections-hit-10year-high-and-california-taxpayers-are-exposed.html"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:24:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:24:50","slug":"irs-collections-hit-10year-high-and-california-taxpayers-are-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/story\/606592\/irs-collections-hit-10year-high-and-california-taxpayers-are-exposed.html","title":{"rendered":"IRS Collections Hit 10-Year High And California Taxpayers Are Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES, CA –<\/strong> The IRS collected more than $104.1 billion through enforced collection actions in fiscal year 2023, according to the IRS Data Book FY2023. The highest enforced collection volume in a decade. Liens filed, levies issued, and wage garnishments executed all trended upward as the agency deployed roughly $80 billion in Inflation Reduction Act enforcement funding. For California taxpayers already carrying unresolved IRS debt, that number isn’t background noise. It’s a countdown. Golden State Tax Relief, a Los Angeles-based tax resolution firm with over 40 years of practice, is responding by expanding its immediate-intake capacity to help individuals get representation in place before enforcement accelerates further.<\/p>\n

Key Facts: The IRS Data Book FY2023 reports $104.1 billion in enforced collections. The highest in ten years IRS Notice CP504 (intent to levy) to actual levy execution can happen in as few as 30 days with no further warning required The IRS issued more than 1.6 million liens in FY2023, per the IRS Data Book FY2023. Each one a public record that can freeze credit, block real estate transactions, and complicate business operations Tax practitioners consistently report that collection alternatives. Installment Agreements, Offers in Compromise, Currently Not Collectible status. Become harder to qualify for once active enforcement has started Golden State Tax Relief offers free consultations and representation across all IRS and California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) enforcement actions, including wage garnishments, bank levies, and audits The firm is led by Dennis Cozen, whose 40+ years of tax resolution experience includes federal and state cases across the full range of collection and audit scenarios<\/p>\n

The IRS doesn’t get emotional about collections. It just keeps moving. What changed in the last three years isn’t the agency’s authority. It’s its capacity. With the Inflation Reduction Act directing tens of billions toward enforcement staffing and technology, the IRS is processing cases faster, issuing notices sooner, and following through on threats that once sat in a backlog for months. California taxpayers face a compounded problem: the Franchise Tax Board runs its own parallel enforcement track, and a federal levy doesn’t pause a state garnishment.<\/p>\n

Dennis Cozen, founder of Golden State Tax Relief, puts the stakes plainly: “The IRS Data Book shows collections are at a ten-year high, and the enforcement pipeline is fuller than it’s been in a generation. What most people don’t understand is that the gap between ‘notice received’ and ‘wages garnished’ is not measured in months anymore. It’s measured in weeks. The single most expensive decision a taxpayer can make right now is to wait and see.”<\/p>\n

A typical case looks like this: a self-employed contractor receives an IRS CP503 notice, assumes it’s another warning, and sets it aside. Thirty days later, a CP504 arrives. Intent to levy. By the time the taxpayer calls a resolution firm, the IRS has already issued a levy to their bank. At that point, releasing the levy requires immediate contact with the IRS, often a financial disclosure, and in many cases a same-day or next-day response window. Every option that existed two weeks earlier. An installment agreement negotiated before enforcement, an Offer in Compromise submitted without a lien on record. Is now harder to obtain and in some cases unavailable entirely. The real problem isn’t the debt. It’s the information gap that turns a manageable situation into a crisis.<\/p>\n

Cozen adds: “People hire us because they don’t know what the IRS knows about them, what the agency is allowed to do, or how fast it can move. That’s the information asymmetry that destroys people financially. Our job is to close that gap and put a qualified advocate between the client and the collection machine. Before it reaches their paycheck or their bank account.”<\/p>\n

The firm’s approach centers on immediate case intake, a full analysis of the client’s IRS transcript and state tax standing, and a clear-eyed negotiation strategy built around the collection alternative that fits the client’s actual financial picture. Not every situation qualifies for an Offer in Compromise. And a firm that tells every caller they do is selling something. What works is an honest assessment, followed by fast, experienced advocacy.<\/p>\n

About Golden State Tax Relief<\/strong><\/p>\n

Golden State Tax Relief is a Los Angeles-based tax resolution firm providing expert IRS and California state tax representation to individuals, self-employed professionals, and business owners. Led by founder Dennis Cozen with over 40 years of experience, the firm handles audits, liens, levies, wage garnishments, unfiled returns, and payroll tax problems across federal and state jurisdictions. Golden State Tax Relief offers free consultations and represents clients in all phases of IRS and FTB collection and examination proceedings.<\/p>\n

Media Contact<\/span>
Company Name:<\/strong> Golden State Tax Relief
Contact Person:<\/strong> Dennis Cozen
Email:<\/strong> Send Email<\/a>
City:<\/strong> Los Angeles
Country:<\/strong> United States
Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/goldenstatetaxrelief.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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