Tax Lawyer In Genoa Township, MI

Michigan Treasury publishes its own list of collection actions, and it runs to 10 items: liens, tax warrants covering seizure of business and personal property, wage levies, financial institution levies, other levies, offset of refunds and other money owed to you, holding you personally responsible for business taxes, liquor license revocation or non-renewal, referral to a collection agency, and other methods as necessary. Treasury contracts with Coast Professional Inc. for that collection agency work, and an account can be referred to the Michigan Attorney General.

Driver’s license suspension is not on that list.

We spell that out because it is one of the questions we field most often, usually from someone who has read somewhere that a Michigan tax debt can cost them the ability to drive to work. Treasury’s published collection actions do not include it. The license suspensions Michigan drivers remember come out of child support enforcement and unpaid vehicle fees, which are separate statutes run by separate agencies, and Michigan’s Clean Slate to Drive reforms narrowed non-safety suspensions further from 1 October 2021.

Treasury has real teeth. That list is long enough without an eleventh item on it, and you will make a better decision about which balance to pay first if you are working from what the agency actually publishes rather than from what you have absorbed.

One more correction worth making. Treasury’s page says a lien picked up by a credit reporting agency stays in your credit history for 7 to 10 years. That is a statement about credit reporting, not about how long the lien itself lives, and the two get conflated constantly.

If you are current on your filings, your balance is modest, and you can clear it inside the term the IRS allows, set it up yourself on the IRS Online Payment Agreement rather than paying anyone to do it. We would rather say that now.

If your problem is your assessment, your taxable value or your poverty exemption, that is the township. We do not take that work, we will not pretend to, and pointing you to the right desk costs us a lead and saves you a retainer.

And if you have been quoted a settlement figure before anyone pulled your transcripts, treat it as a hope rather than a number. An Offer in Compromise is decided on your assessment dates, your equity, and your allowable living expenses under the IRS Collection Financial Standards, which the IRS sets county by county and last updated on 29 June 2026. None of those three is knowable from a phone call. Accepted offers are a minority of offers filed, and the IRS publishes the criteria that decide it, so anyone naming your settlement before reading your account is guessing in front of you.

If your income is low enough, you may not need to pay anyone at all. The Low Income Taxpayer Clinics nearest Genoa Township are in Ann Arbor and East Lansing, both listed in IRS Publication 4134. They represent qualifying taxpayers before the IRS free or for a nominal fee. If you qualify, that is a better answer than hiring us, and we will tell you so.