How much does an IRS tax resolution cost?
Here, in writing: $0 for a fifteen-minute call with a licensed Enrolled Agent, $795 flat to set up an IRS payment plan, and $1,995 to $3,995 for full casework such as hardship status. No investigation fee, and never a percentage of what you owe. You pay only after the Enrolled Agent accepts your case and you confirm the price.
Prices as of September 2026 · A small practice: one licensed Enrolled Agent works each case, start to end.
Most firms in this category quote by phone, after a paid “investigation” of $295 to $500. We print ours, and what you pay moves only with the work your case needs.
Where you land depends on the work: whether returns are still unfiled, whether the IRS needs a financial statement from you, and whether money is already being taken. Five questions, just below the prices, tell you which one is yours.
Call with a licensed Enrolled Agent
$0
Fifteen minutes with a licensed Enrolled Agent who confirms your case and your price before anything is ever charged. Booking costs nothing and asks for no card; nothing is charged unless you confirm a price afterward.
IRS payment plan, set up for you
$795 flat
For cases that resolve with a properly set up payment arrangement: a full working session with your EA, live in your own IRS account, penalty review included. One flat charge, only after the EA accepts your case.
Full casework
$1,995–$3,995
For cases needing a prepared financial disclosure and EA-run resolution (hardship status and related programs). Three published tiers by case scale: larger cases carry more substantiation and more IRS interaction.
Standard casework
$1,995
Extended casework
$2,995
Major casework
$3,995
Your tier is predicted from your answers and confirmed by your Enrolled Agent on your call. If the record shows a different tier, you see the new published price in writing before anything is charged, and you can take it or walk away with everything refunded. In rare cases the work is larger than any tier on this page, such as many unfiled years, missing records, or business filings; then the Enrolled Agent sets a price from the record, you see it in writing before any charge, and the same walk-away refund applies. Pay as the work completes, or in full at acceptance, which takes $80 to $160 off depending on the tier.
Offer in compromise
priced in writing after your call
Filed only when your numbers show the IRS would accept it; the industry files offers the IRS rejects six times out of seven, and we won’t. Priced and confirmed at your consultation, always in writing before you pay anything at all.
There is always a free option: the IRS’s own tools, set up directly, no firm involved. The five-question check tells you honestly if that’s you.
Five questions
Where you fit
These five questions tell us where you stand with the IRS and which of the prices above your case would fit. Even if you don't end up working with us, what comes back is worth knowing about your situation.
What has the IRS sent or told you?
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What a licensed Enrolled Agent does with a case like yours
Pulls your IRS record first, so the income side is what the IRS already has rather than what you remember. Files the years the IRS is waiting on, if there are any. Prepares the financial statement the IRS asks for when it asks for one, with the living expenses the IRS allows instead of the ones it strikes, and files the payment plan those numbers support. If they show you can't pay right now, a request to pause collection goes in instead.
Who does it, and what the call is
Fairmark is a small practice, not a national firm. One licensed Enrolled Agent works every case, federally licensed to represent taxpayers before the IRS in all fifty states, and the same person stays on it from the first call to the end. The call is a weekday morning, about fifteen minutes, with the Enrolled Agent rather than a salesperson. Prices are published, not quoted on a call, and nothing is paid before the call.
Who would be working your case
Fairmark is a small practice, not a national firm. One licensed Enrolled Agent works every case, federally licensed to represent taxpayers before the IRS in all fifty states, and the same person stays on it from the first call to the end. Prices are published, not quoted on a call, and the call you book is with the Enrolled Agent rather than a salesperson.
Thomas A. McDevitt, EA · Enrolled Agent · Philadelphia · verify in the IRS directory
Search: last name McDevitt, ZIP 19125, credential: Enrolled Agent
Listed on the IRS's roster of active enrolled agents, updated August 24, 2026. Download the IRS's own list and search his name yourself.
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