| IRS wage garnishment can have a dramatic affect on | | | | bleak. You are getting phone calls from the credit card |
| your immediate life, but not just in the obvious ways. It | | | | company and the car loan people, as well as the |
| will definitely reduce the amount of money coming in | | | | phone company and the electric company. You are |
| each week, but the intermediate and long-term | | | | going to come up short on next month's rent and your |
| consequences rippling out from that can be | | | | diet consists mostly of Ramen noodles, rice and beans, |
| devastating and long lasting. But this sad scenario | | | | and dinners at friends' houses. |
| doesn't have to happen to you. | | | | Fast forward to four months later. Your car has been |
| Most people think about the obvious when they think | | | | repossessed and you are sleeping on a friend's couch |
| about the garnishment of wages, a reduction in income, | | | | since you were evicted from your apartment because |
| without realizing the true extent of how much the | | | | you couldn't pay the rent. The people to whom you still |
| government can take. A single person could be left | | | | owe money are in court trying to get an additional |
| with as little as $179.81 per week, or a married person | | | | garnishment on your wages. The law won't let your |
| $289.42. Immediately your standard of living would | | | | boss fire you for one wage garnishment, but he is |
| decline. Since rent and food have to be the first | | | | allowed to fire you for a second levy. Your credit is |
| priorities, frills like cable and internet have to be | | | | totally ruined and your life is in a shambles. |
| sacrificed. Electricity and phone service won't be cut | | | | Though this has certainly been a dramatic example of |
| off immediately so maybe those bills can be put aside | | | | the possible consequences of IRS wage garnishment, |
| until next month. If you live in a cold climate you will | | | | have no doubt that a tax levy can have just as |
| probably be turning down the thermostat and wearing | | | | devastating an impact on your life. Don't wait until the |
| heavier clothes when you are home. | | | | IRS is on your employer's doorstep. Take steps now |
| By the second month, things are really starting to look | | | | to reach a settlement with the government. |