Got an IRS penalty notice?
Find out in two minutes whether your penalty can be removed, and exactly how to ask. Free, no signup, no SSN.
Many penalties come off with one free phone call
If you have a clean recent filing history, the IRS often removes a late-file or late-pay penalty under First-Time Abate, and it's now starting to do this automatically. That path is free. We'll tell you plainly when it applies and hand you the script to use, because hiding the free option would be a lousy way to earn trust.
When it's not automatic, the written request has to be good
If first-time relief doesn't fit, the IRS still removes penalties for reasonable cause: a serious event, outside your control, that overlapped the deadline you missed. That request lives or dies on a coherent timeline and the right documents. That's the part worth doing carefully.
Understand your notice
Plain-English guides to what each IRS notice means, the deadline, and whether its penalty is typically removable.