The IRS Says I Owe Them $180,000

brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. >> For the past three years, um I've had a lot of issues with the IRS and uh the Colorado uh Department of Revenue. Uh my former employer that I worked with for 27 years. Somehow my social security number got tied to their Shopify account. and the feds as well as uh Colorado State have been coming at me for the last 3 years on back income tax that I owe them. And uh today I received notifications um my apologies. they're going to start garnishing my wages and I'm just in a tough spot and I've reached out to my former employer multiple times to try to fix this and they've done nothing to uh to help me. >> So, what does the IRS say you owe them? >> Over $180,000. >> What does the Colorado State say you owe them? Uh right now they're saying $13,000 and some change. >> Mhm. Okay. >> But the 13,000 What do you make a year from? >> Uh right now I'm making about 130k. >> Okay. Were you a a partner in the former business in any way? >> I was not. >> You were simply a W2 employee. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, dude, you need to hire an attorney. That's what I keep on thinking. I just try to >> No, today you should have called them before you called us. You need to get a tax attorney, someone that does taxes, >> and they need to call the uh Colorado and say, "Look, if if you garnish this guy, we're going to sue you for $20 million >> cuz it's not his debt. It's a clerical error, right? >> And you can't garnish him. There's nothing to be afraid of, honey. You don't owe the money. It's not your money. You You don't owe it. It's it's an error by your former employer and you're probably going to sue them. Get them off their butt, too. But joyful joyful, light some people up, baby. >> I know. I I contacted a a tax attorney about 6 months ago cuz I I I put a lot of faith in this uh business here in Colorado Springs cuz I you know, they're a Christian business and you know, when I talked to the tax attorney, they're like, "Well, it's going to cost you $6,000 out of pocket for us to do it." And I was like, I just can't afford that. I >> You can't afford not to do it cuz Colorado's getting ready to take $6,000 out of your butt any minute. >> Yeah. >> You may as well give it to an attorney and fight back >> yesterday. Why did you wait 6 months? >> Oh, >> did you think this was just going to go away, honey? >> No. I I I honestly The IRS keeps on sending me notices saying that they're working on it and that they need more time. No, you wait a minute. You You actually Here's what just came out of your mouth. You just said the IRS is competent. >> That's hilarious. >> That's a funny joke. >> And that they're going to investigate this for you. >> The IRS is going to help you. Come on, man. Really? You know who's going to help you? You starting today. So either call that tax attorney back or get a new one. And you need to that somebody needs to be in touch by the close of business with Colorado so they don't start garnishing your dad gum wages, man. Because here's what you get for doing nothing. Somebody will do stuff to you. You can't do nothing. Nothing is not one of your options. That strategy sucks. So either call either call that tax attorney back or get online at Ramsey Solutions, find one of our tax pros in the area and have them make a recommendation. You need legal representation by the close of business today. They need to be in touch with somebody and say, "Hold on, Junior. This guy does not owe any money. This is a clerical error. And if it can't get fixed by working directly with the tax institutions, you may have to sue your good Christian former employer who can't seem to help you get rid of $180,000. That does not qualify as good Christian, by the way. Hello. >> Amen. >> Pissing on your employees does not qualify. >> Hello. >> Thank you, Dave. I I I hear you. I appreciate it. >> You need to be the hero of the story, not the victim. Mhm. >> Get up and get them. >> Cuz this is not going it's not going to fix itself, man. >> Okay. It's not This is not There's no There's no There's no uh tooth fairy that's going to land in here that the tax fairy is not going to come visit you and fix this. You're you're going to have to be like a grown-up and go attack this situation with a vengeance. Otherwise, it's going to take you down because you don't want to screw around with the IRS for the next decade. >> Yeah. And they're wrong. You're in the position of power. You're right. You have the information. I just feel like your your countenance is very low. As though everybody else knows more than >> as if you have no options. You're the one with all the options. >> But listen, you hire an attorney who gets excited about this. Not one who's like, I don't know what we're going to do. If that's the attorney, fire them before you hire them. You want an attorney gets mad like I am right now. >> Oh, I appreciate that, Dave, more than you know. And you your book changed my life. has made me a believer. I want you to know that. >> Well, I appreciate that. But hey, hit this thing right in the nose and see if it'll bleed. Okay, >> I will. >> Yeah, knock it down. Knock it down. This is This been Listen, this has owned you every waking moment for the last year, hadn't it? >> The last three years. >> You need free. You need to be free from this. And the only one's going to set you free is you with action. Okay? So, get on Ramsey Solutions. Talk to one of our tax pros in the area. Tell them what your situation is and you tell them I'm fired up about it. Said Dave's fired up about this. Okay? And get me an attorney that's fired up. You want an attorney that even you don't really like. That's that's the kind of attorney you want. Okay? You want one that pisses off everybody cuz that's his job as an attack dog. Sick them. All right. Her job. Whatever. Get it. And that that's man she >> That's crazy. He's letting these the IRS could care less. Number one. These people could care. No one is become incompetent bureaucrats. >> No one is. Yeah. No one's thinking about this. He's >> including the former employer. How embarrassing. >> If we accidentally did that to one of our people here, I would be I would be so embarrassed that I would have fixed it in 20 seconds. >> Yeah. And somebody would have got fired. >> Yeah. Hello. Wow, >> man. Wow. >> Well, not not if it was an honest mistake, but it goes on a long time. $180,000, too. >> He's been losing sleep for three years. >> This is not like We didn't sell like two paintings on Shopify here. This is like there's something big going down here. >> Wow. >> Wow. >> Oh, man. >> If you want something done, sometimes you just got to do it yourself, Dave. Every time. >> Can't be waiting around for these >> fools. Every time you got to do it yourself when you guys listen. When you know something's wrong and you kick it, you you put you kick it up under the rug. Kick it up under the rug, you know what you get? Lumpy rug. That's what you get. And these things have a high rate of resurrection. Like a 100% chance it's going to resurrect. And it looks like a zombie when it comes out from under the rug. No. Go ahead and kill it now so you don't have to deal with it later. Create your free every dollar budget today. The simplest way to budget for your