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Personally Liable For Payroll Taxes? What The Trust Fund Recovery Penalty Means

Episode Summary

If your payroll taxes never reached the IRS, you could be personally on the hook, even as a bookkeeper or board member who never touched the accounting software. One sixty-day letter determines whether liens and levies follow you for a decade. Read more at https://mixontaxlaw.com/trust-fund-recovery-penalty/

Episode Notes

[thoughtful] Here's a question that keeps Houston business owners up at night. If your company withholds payroll taxes from employee paychecks but never sends them to the IRS, who actually pays for that? [short pause] Today we're digging into the Trust Fund Recovery Penalty, and what it means that it can reach you personally, not just your business. Mixon Tax Law City: Houston Address: 2000 S Dairy Ashford Rd Suite 298 Website: https://mixontaxlaw.com/