Some of my IRS Lien Thumper and IRS Terminator customers have used the Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) to request postal records respecting the Certified mailings of Notices of Lien required by 26 USC § 6320 and Final Notices of Intent to Levy required by 26 USC § 6330. Those requests are for a Postal record, signed by a Postal worker, and required to be kept in its paper form by the IRS for ten years. The purpose for requesting those records is to expose the IRS’s failure to follow administrative procedures resulting their having to remove their liens or return levied funds. The IRS Lien Thumper and IRS Terminator packages discuss this strategy in more detail. Both of those packages are currently being offered together at a substantial discount.

Any information showing that the IRS has not followed all their administrative steps can be instrumental in winning a Collection Due Process Hearing that can, at the option of those threatened with an IRS levy, suspend collection activities and stave off the implementation of an IRS levy against a bank account or paycheck, as is discussed in the free videos at www.irsterminator.com.

IRS responses to Postal record FOIAs have been two different things at this point: 1) They have failed to provide the record; 2) They have provided a record that appears to have been fabricated. When they provide a record that appears to have been fabricated is when a FOIA to the Postal Service becomes necessary to verify the veracity of the record.

The Postal Service requests that FOIAs be sent to the custodian of the records. The custodian is the head of the postal facility where the record is maintained. In most instances, it will be a postmaster. To me this means that my customers will have to determine where the IRS placed the Certified mail in the mail and their FOIA request will be going to the postmaster at that facility. A search at www.usps.gov to determine the address of the facility should prove fruitful. The FOIA Act itself specifies that the envelope containing your request state that it is a “Freedom of Information Act Request” on the outside.

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