Divorce & Tax Debt - Making Sure Your Ex-Spouse Is Paying Their Share

Once upon a clip you were in love...then that love soured and now you're divorced or detached from the individual that the World used to go around around for you. Worse still, before this labor union ended you had filed your taxation tax return jointly and a small package of debt came from it. Now that you're divorced, and not really speaking to each other how make you cognize they're paying their owed on your joint Internal Revenue Service debt?

It's not stalking...The Internal Revenue Service makes let limited information revelation for separated/ divorced couples who no longer dwell in the same house. You can direct the Internal Revenue Service a written petition for information revelation in sees to the taxation twelvemonth from the joint filing. Some information tin be disclosed and some can't.

What you tin know...The followers information can be disclosed about your ex-spouse and their current aggregation position with the IRS:

· Whether the Internal Revenue Service have attempted existent aggregation actions against your ex.

· What amount, if any have been collected from your ex.

· Their current aggregation status: such as as as as being in an installment agreement, or being under a depository financial institution levy.

· The ground for any suspension in aggregation activity: such as currently non collectable status.

What you can't know...Information that can not be lets on includes:

· Any personal information about your ex: such as where they dwell or their current telephone number.

· Any information about your ex-spouses other debts, their current job, or any information about their income.

This can aid give you peace of head that the Internal Revenue Service is harassing your ex just as much as they're harassing you.

You desire to acquire them...But what you really desire to cognize is can you acquire out of the Internal Revenue Service debt and do your ex wage the whole darn thing.

There is a proviso called Innocent Spouse where one partner can acquire out of an Internal Revenue Service debt even if the taxation tax return was filed jointly. As with anything else involving the Internal Revenue Service there are demands that must be met to measure up for Innocent Spouse Relief.

· You must not have got got known about the extent of the debt when you signed the joint return.

· The debt must be primarily your ex's fault.

· You suffered maltreatment in the relationship.

Under those statuses you can acquire an Internal Revenue Service debt waived for you and set the full duty on your ex.

Now you have the smoke gun...Use it!