The IRS has filed a Notice of Federal Tax Lien (NFTL) for the unpaid balances located on the Form 668(Y)(c) enclosed with the letter.
You have a balance due on your tax account which you have not paid. When you don’t pay your taxes, the IRS can file a public document, an NFTL, with the local and/or state authorities. When the NFTL is filed, it alerts creditors you owe the government unpaid taxes.
The NFTL secures the priority of the government’s claim to your current and future property and assets until the balance is paid in full. While NFTLs no longer appear on credit reports, they may still affect your ability to get credit if a potential creditor uses other resources, such as public records, to discover the NFTL.
The NFTL is released when: the balance is full paid, the time when the IRS can collect has expired, or the IRS accepts an offer in compromise.
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