Did you know that a taxpayer making a voluntary payment to the IRS can designate to which liability it is credited? The doctrine is called earmarking and it’s really useful when a prospective debtor owes taxes for both priority and non priority years. Absent instructions from the payor, the IRS applies payment to the oldest […]
Bankruptcy Exemptions: 10 Ways to Deal with Excess Cash
Bankruptcy lawyers occasionally are confronted with the client with more cash, or other marketable assets, worth more than the available exemptions to protect them. And state exemption systems often protect the darndest things, like a mule and a plow. A milk cow. The family bible. Those aren’t the things most of us are striving to […]
