Tax Question: Help with Chapter 13
We have not filed taxes for 4 years and are in debt beyond our means.
We are wanting to rectify the situation with the IRS, but can we file a Chapter 13 since we had a Chapter 7 dismissed in Jan 2006, and could we include the taxes that we owe (assuming that we do) in that Chapter 13?
If so, is there someone with a reasonable fee to do both? Please help.
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The dismissal of your chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2006 should not prevent you from filing a bankruptcy case now under chapter 13. Prior discharges in prior cases are much more important. You would have to provide for payment of all of your taxes during the 5 years of a chapter 13 plan unless the government agrees otherwise. So unless you can do this, negotiations with the IRS outside of bankruptcy would be the only alternative.