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An IRS bank levy is part of the IRS collection process. Once they've determined that money is owed they have the ability, under the law, to go to third parties that owe you money. When you have amounts in a bank account, the bank owes you money. If you have $100,000 in the bank, the bank owes you $100,000. The IRS can go to the bank and say look, you owe the taxpayer $100,000, the taxpayer owes us $100,000 please pay us $100,000.

So, it’s part of the collection process, but that process has to happen with notice to you, with notice to the bank, and they have to do it correctly. In other words, if it's a bank account that is yours and your wife's jointly, but you are the only debtor on the tax bill because the tax bill has nothing to do with your wife, then that's not a bank account that can be levied. That doesn’t mean the IRS doesn’t do it, that just means that you have the opportunity to attack that levy and get it removed. It is part of the IRS process and they can do it with respect to wages, they can do it with respect to bank accounts, they can do it if they happen to know that somebody owed you money on an account receivable they could levy that account receivable in the hands of the third-party.