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    Removal of Bank Levy

    Stop the IRS from seizing funds from your bank accounts.

    An IRS bank levy is the moment a tax problem becomes a crisis: your bank receives the levy, freezes the funds in your account up to the amount you owe, and you find out when your card declines. But the design of a bank levy contains its own remedy, and most people facing one do not know it exists.

    A bank levy is one-time, not continuous. It reaches the funds in the account at the moment the levy is served, not deposits that arrive after. More importantly, your bank is required to hold the frozen funds for 21 days before sending them to the IRS. That 21 day window exists precisely so errors and hardships can be raised, and it is the window in which a release can put the money back in your account instead of the Treasury.

    We work bank levies as emergencies: establish the exact levy date and deadline, get power of attorney on file, and press the release grounds, hardship, procedural error, or a resolution on the underlying debt, before the funds move. Then we fix the debt so the next levy never comes.

    Is this your situation?

    • Your account is frozen and you just found out
    • Your bank told you it received an IRS levy
    • The frozen funds include money you need for rent, payroll, or medical costs
    • You received a Final Notice of Intent to Levy and want to prevent the freeze
    • This is not the first levy and you want it to be the last

    How We Resolve It

    1. 1

      Establish the clock

      We confirm with the bank when the levy was served, which fixes the exact date funds transfer. Everything is sequenced to beat it.

    2. 2

      Power of attorney, same day

      Form 2848 gives us direct contact with the IRS office that issued the levy.

    3. 3

      Press the release grounds

      Economic hardship, procedural defects in the levy or its notice, or a resolution entered on the debt. We run every viable ground in parallel.

    4. 4

      Get the release to the bank

      An approved release must reach your bank before the holding period ends. We deliver it and confirm receipt.

    5. 5

      Resolve the debt

      The account is only safe once the underlying balance is in an agreement or protected status. That follows immediately.

    What the levy can and cannot reach

    The levy attaches to funds in the account at the moment it is served, up to the balance owed. Deposits that arrive afterward are yours; the same levy does not reach them, though the IRS can issue another. Joint accounts complicate things, since funds are frozen even when some of the money belongs to the other account holder, which itself can be grounds for a partial release. Knowing exactly what was reachable on the levy date is often the first argument.

    Why the IRS levied you, and why that matters

    Bank levies follow a paper trail: assessed debt, escalating notices, and a Final Notice of Intent to Levy giving hearing rights at least 30 days before enforcement. The IRS levies accounts when that trail completes without a response. This matters for two reasons. If the trail has a defect, the levy can be challenged on procedure. And if the trail is intact, the message is that only a real resolution stops the next one, which is exactly what we put in place while the release is being worked.

    How We Help

    • Emergency response sequenced to the transfer deadline
    • Hardship, error, and resolution grounds pressed in parallel
    • Release delivered to your bank and confirmed, not assumed
    • Joint account and third party funds issues raised where they apply
    • The underlying debt resolved so the freeze does not repeat

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Move inside the holding period. Your bank holds levied funds for 21 days before sending them to the IRS, and a release obtained in that window, for hardship, procedural error, or a resolution on the debt, returns the money to you. After the funds transfer, recovery is far harder.

    A levy is the enforcement step after assessed debt and a completed notice sequence went unanswered, ending with a Final Notice of Intent to Levy. It is the IRS forcing the conversation. The response that works is a resolution that makes further levies unnecessary.

    Up to the amount you owe, limited by what was in the account when the levy was served. Later deposits are not covered by that levy. If the freeze includes funds needed for basic living expenses, or money belonging to someone else on a joint account, those are release arguments and we make them.

    Yes. A Final Notice of Intent to Levy with hearing rights must generally be issued at least 30 days before enforcement. Notices sent to old addresses satisfy the requirement more often than people expect, which is why the freeze feels like it came from nowhere. A defective notice sequence is grounds to challenge the levy.

    Not yet. Frozen means the bank is holding the funds through the required waiting period. That period is your window, and it is measured in days, not weeks. The sooner we engage the IRS inside it, the better the odds the money comes back to your account.

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