If the debt is $10,000 or more (up from $5,000 before the IRS Fresh Start program), then the IRS will file a federal tax lien as early as ten days after you receive your notice.
Centralized Lien Operation — To resolve basic and routine lien issues: verify a lien, request lien payoff amount, or release a lien, call 800-913-6050 or e-fax 855-390-3530.
Taxpayers who receive certain notices requiring them to send information to the IRS may now upload their documents online through IRS, rather than mail them in. Please note that taxpayers may securely respond to these notices regardless of having an IRS Online Account.
You'll only be notified of a tax lien after it's already been filed. The IRS sends taxpayers an official Notice of Federal Tax Lien. These liens go into effect 10 days after the IRS issues a record of an existing obligation.
Centralized Lien Operation — To resolve basic and routine lien issues: verify a lien, request lien payoff amount, or release a lien, call 800-913-6050 or e-fax 855-390-3530.
A federal tax lien is valid for 10 years and 30 days from the date of assessment, unless prior to expiration of this period of limitations, the lien is properly refilled within the time allowed by law.
To get a copy, visit the IRS web site at .irs under the “Forms and Pubs” section. It can be accessed directly at ftp.fedworld/pub/irs- pdf/p17. pdf. Or it can be ordered by calling 1-800-829-3676.
Complete Form 14135, Application for Certificate of Discharge of Federal Tax Lien attached with this publication.
Requesting copies by phone — 800-TAX-FORM (800-829-3676).