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I have a few questions
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Customer: What happens if you owe the irs over 100k? Can you do a payment plan? What happens if you forgot to file a 1099c for a short sale?
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Customer: We were on a payment plan, and got kicked off because we had to file our tax return. We owed 23k for 2016 and will have it paid in full next month. We at that point will owe 90k and can get back on a payment plan. What are my other options?

I received a notice, that I have certified Mail waiting for me, from the IRS today
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Customer: Well, my Federal returns were taken this year, upon further research, it was because of tax issues from 2014. But, I just recieved this today
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Customer: After my Federal Returns were taken, I also received a letter in the mail, stating that there was a class action lawsuit against the employer I had in 2014, for issues with their medical insurance. I had hoped that caused the issues with my Federal returns, because I have never had these issues before with filing. I have always gone through Turbotax or H and R block

I work at a company that intends to set up a new trading entity in the US. We currently use an internal sales system for trading within Australian and I have been asked to adapt this for US trading.The questions we need advice on are below.1. In Australia, the tax that needs to be shown on invoices is called GST (goods and services tax). This is a set 10% Australia wide. My understanding is that in the US, this is called “sales tax” and the % varies from state to state. Is this correct?2. Can you please provide me with, or direct me to a tax table online where I can see the latest up to date tax rates PER state.3. Are the state sales tax rates based on the location of the customer purchasing the order, the head office location of the company selling, where the item is physically dispatched from, or somewhere else entirely? In other words, what is the location that determines the sales tax?4. Other than the sales tax, are there any other taxes that need to be displayed on the invoice to customers?5. Initially we will have a small operational setup in the US. We will have one primary contact over there (an employee of the US entity) who communicates with a 3rd party logistics warehouse that does the inventory receipting and dispatching. Can you please recommend in which state it would be most cost effective for us to have our “head office” setup, for the purpose of state and federal taxes. At this point in time it will be easier for our one employee to set up our “head office” in that location, as opposed to in 12 months time when we may have a dozen employees.6. In Australia, a “sale” is deemed to have officially occurred when we dispatch stock to the customer. That is the point in time when the invoice is created and for accounting purposes we report the sale. Prior to that we may have received payment, but it’s not until we dispatch stock that the invoice is created. Is the same true in the US?7. Further to point 6 above, where does the IRS deem a company’s “head office” to be? Is it defined as the primary place where the employees work, or is simply wherever the registered address of the company is? As we may have employees working in satellite offices across different states, we just want to align our understanding with the IRS’s.