The IRS are a bunch of fuckers in the way they are allowed to go back 6 years to try to collect from you but they only allow you to go back 3 years on them... I personally had some business with them on not filing for a bit and when I straightened everything out, everything they owed me that was over 3 years old, they said I had no rights to. Out of 7 years of not filing, they owed me every year but 1, The only thing I owed them for was from the 6th year prior and I had to pay it. The 4th and 5th years prior both showed them owing me some bucks but that was just tough shit. At the time, the current and prior 2 years, I was able to collect and the 7th prior year didn't need to be filed at all. This was all done by the book with lawyers and by CPA pros so if you are thinking of trying to recover anything over 3 years old, you will need more than luck.
edited in.... I would still get my advise from a lawyer/CPA if it was me in the situation, but I wouldn't hold any hopes
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