Corina Cordova

Corina Cordova was a frugal, stubborn, hardworking woman. She also had a grandson with special needs. Corina lived on a fixed income and was under tremendous pressure from the IRS to pay back taxes. IRS Medic attorneys reviewed her circumstances, discussed her goals and suggested that she might qualify for non-collectible status. Corina decided she could save some money by dealing with the IRS herself. After the IRS levied her Social Security payments and her grandson’s savings account, she contacted us again.

Corina’s efforts to deal with the IRS had not turned out so well. She had agreed to pay $500 per month under a repayment plan, even though she couldn’t afford the payments. By the time she came back to see our attorneys, the IRS had levied her social security and was in the process of levying a bank account she jointly held for her disabled grandson. She was terrified.

Levies are very difficult to release, especially when a payment plan has already been established and then defaulted. However, our tax attorneys were able to document that the savings account was not hers but her grandson’s. Then we documented more allowable expenses and corrected some of Corina’s other mistakes. She qualified for non-collectible status, and within a week we secured a release for the bank account and for her social security payments.

It’s been a few years since Corina’s IRS adventure, but she still stops by our offices now and then. When you come to our offices, you may notice a fresh plate of her homemade cookies.