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Calculate the Collection Statute Expiration Date on any IRS liability, with every tolling event shown.

Size a Simple Payment Plan, Guaranteed, or Simple Payment Plan (Business Trust Fund) installment agreement per IRM 5.14.

Check Hardship Currently Not Collectible eligibility per IRM 5.16.1.2.9 — income vs. allowable expenses and net asset equity.

Run the IRS reasonable-collection-potential formula to test offer-in-compromise viability.

Route a case across Guaranteed IA, Simple Payment Plan, Non-Simple IA, PPIA, CNC, and OIC in one pass, with the IRM/IRC citation shown at every branch.

Turn a pasted Wage & Income Transcript into a populated Form 433 disposable-income estimate under the IRS Collection Financial Standards.

Find the assessment statute expiration date (ASED) for a return: three years, six years or no limit, with each rule cited to the Code.

Got a private collection agency letter or call? See whether IRC §6306 lets the IRS send the account to an agency, which exclusions apply, and how to verify before you pay.

Test your situation against the nine Taxpayer Advocate Service case criteria in IRM 13.1.7, then draft the two statements a request for TAS help asks for. The tool never asks for a taxpayer ID.

Pick your lien or levy notice, enter its date and see your Collection Due Process hearing dates, the issues you may raise and what a request needs. The tool never asks for a taxpayer ID.

Check First-Time Abate and Automatic Exemption from Penalty eligibility, and rank reasonable-cause arguments.

Route a penalty across AEP, First-Time Abate, and reasonable cause in one pass, with the IRM/IRC citation shown at every branch.

Route between IRC §6015 Innocent Spouse Relief (Form 8857) and IRC §6402 Injured Spouse Allocation (Form 8379) in one pass, with the IRC/Rev. Proc./IRM citation shown at every branch.

Route a dispute to Collection Due Process, the Equivalent Hearing, the Collection Appeals Program, an Offer in Compromise rejection appeal, or Audit Reconsideration in one pass, with the deadline and the IRC/IRM citation shown at every branch.

Estimate the IRS failure-to-file and failure-to-pay penalties and daily-compounded interest on one individual return, with the IRC section, the rate, and the arithmetic beside every line.

Draft a First Time Abate or reasonable-cause request letter from your own facts, with each IRM test marked met, not met, or unknown and the source beside it.

Estimate the IRC 6721 and 6722 penalties for late or wrong information returns and payee statements, by lateness tier, with the annual maximums and the relief routes.

Compute the last day to petition the U.S. Tax Court after a notice of deficiency under IRC 6213(a), with the weekend and D.C.-holiday roll and the printed-date rule.

Sort the facts about a worker into the three categories Publication 15-A uses, check the statutory employee rules and see your next steps. The tool never asks for a taxpayer ID.

Estimate the IRS underpayment penalty for each due date, see which safe harbor needs less cash and test a payment. The tool never asks for a taxpayer ID.

Look up a transaction code and get its plain-English meaning, next action, and IRM citation.

Calculate your Section 199A qualified business income (QBI) deduction, including SSTB, W-2 wage, and UBIA limits.

Find the income level where an S-corp election beats sole-proprietor self-employment tax.

Build a defensible reasonable-compensation range by profession and income.

Run the ratio percentage and 55% average benefits tests on Trump Account contributions, at the $2,500 (IRC §128(b)) and $5,000 (IRC §530A(c)(2)) limits, per proposed REG-101355-26.

Run the ratio percentage, 55% average benefits, and 25% owner concentration tests on a dependent care assistance program (DCAP), at the $7,500/$3,750 IRC §129(a)(2)(A) limits, per proposed REG-101355-26.

See what reclaiming your research hours is worth to your practice.

Describe a tax situation in plain language and find the matching IRS form, with a link to its current IRS.gov page.

Paste an IRS Account Transcript, Wage & Income Transcript, Return Transcript, or Record of Account Transcript and get every transaction code or income document, with the plain-English meaning and IRM citation for each.

Find out whether a child’s unearned income is taxed at the parent’s rate under IRC §1(g), and how much extra tax that adds, with every line of Form 8615 shown and cited.

Find the quickest way to get an IRS record: routine access, the Respond Directly Process or a FOIA request, with the 26 CFR 601.702 checklist, a request letter and the deadlines.

Test a filled-in Form 2848 or Form 8821 against the IRM 21.3.7 essential elements and rejection reasons before you send it. The tool never asks for a taxpayer ID.

Find how much of your Social Security or Tier 1 Railroad Retirement benefits are taxable, with every line of Pub. 915 Worksheet 1 shown and cited to IRC §86.

Find your standard deduction for 2025 or 2026, with the age 65 and blindness add-ons, the dependent limit, and the cases where it is zero, every step cited to IRC §63 and Pub. 501.

Check whether you must file a federal return: the gross-income test by filing status and age, the separate test for dependents, and the situations that require a return at any income, each cited to IRC §6012 and Pub. 501.

Check whether a person is your qualifying child or qualifying relative, whether an exception applies, and who may claim a child that two people could, each test cited to IRC §152 and Pub. 501.

Check whether a child brings you the child tax credit or the credit for other dependents under IRC §24, including the age-17 and Social Security number rules, then see the income phase-out line by line.

Check which of the five filing statuses you can use, including the considered-unmarried rules for spouses who live apart, head of household, and qualifying surviving spouse. Each test shows its citation to the tax code or Pub. 501.

Check whether a student brings you the American opportunity credit or the lifetime learning credit, the amount after the income phase-out, the refundable part, and who claims it, each rule cited to IRC §25A and Form 8863.

Owe the IRS and cannot pay it all now? See which IRS payment plan likely fits you and an estimated monthly payment, with the rule behind it.

Owe the IRS more than you can pay? See whether a payment plan, a pause in collection or an offer to settle fits, with the rule behind it.

Calculate the IRC §6213(b)(2)(A) 60-day deadline to request abatement of a math-error assessment (CP10, CP11, CP11A, CP12, CP13, CP16), adjusted under IRC §7503 for weekends and legal holidays.

Sort each change on your CP2000 notice, see what the IRS page says about replying and draft reply paragraphs with bracket placeholders. The tool never asks for a taxpayer ID.

The compliance cards for FTD’s tools in one place, to record your firm’s review of each tool. Not a tool itself.

The Federal Tax Desk subscriber terms of service.

What tools.federaltaxdesk.com collects, which scripts run on it, and what stays in your browser.

Who publishes The Federal Tax Desk, what the CFP®/EA credentials mean, and what the site is not.

When a tax professional needs the IRS Practitioner Priority Service and when e-Services or Tax Pro Account handles the job online, with the number, hours, eligibility, and per-call limits.

The Federal Tax Desk’s full practitioner resource library: downloadable cheat sheets and guides, plus every free reference tool on this site.

Side-by-side comparison of CP504 and LT11/Letter 1058/CP90/CP297 — what each one authorizes, the deadline for each, and how to tell them apart.

All five IRS balance-due notices in order — CP14, CP501, CP503, CP504, LT11/Letter 1058 — with what each one triggers, authorizes, and requires by when.

What the IRS Math and Taxpayer Help Act (H.R. 998, Public Law 119-39) changes about math-error notices, which notices it covers, and when it takes effect.

Every IRS phone line sorted by problem and by department — practitioner, individual, business, identity theft, e-Services, EFTPS, TAS, estate and gift, excise — with the number and hours IRS.gov prints, plus the online and written routes the IRS names before a call.

What a tax research memorandum contains, a copyable template, and a complete sample memo on a fictional client, plus what counts as authority.

Current IRS quarterly interest rates with an as-of date, the quarterly rate history back to 2016, and the statutory percentages for failure-to-file, failure-to-pay, accuracy-related, and civil fraud penalties — each cited to the Revenue Ruling or Code section.

What the IRS itself states about processing time for refunds, amended returns, Forms 2848 and 8821, ITINs, EINs, and offers in compromise, with the IRS source and check date for each row.

What the IRS Tax Pro Account tool does for power of attorney and tax information authorization requests, who can use it, how to link a CAF number, and where it stops.

What signing Form 5564 does under IRC 6213(d), what a reply without the waiver does, when a Tax Court petition fits, and what doing nothing costs.