I screwed up once while contracting and ended up owing ove 25,000. It was worse once I hit 25k, they send you to a different department on the phone with nastier collection people.
Still, they just put you on a payment plan if you are broke, they deal with it all the time. They know you can't pay what you don't have. You sound like you aren't even that bad off, you can pay them.
One time the worker told me to ask for some kind of forgiveness program after I paid all the tax and penalties.
You explain you were having some kind of problem-- health problem or mental problem-- that year and that's why you underpaid. My mom had died one year and I was depressed, and I told them that in the application.
To my amazement they sent back something like 5k in penalties and taxes, because I had never really screwed up before. It's actually quite generous.
Most of the people I dealt with were nice and helpful actually.
Still, they just put you on a payment plan if you are broke, they deal with it all the time. They know you can't pay what you don't have. You sound like you aren't even that bad off, you can pay them.
One time the worker told me to ask for some kind of forgiveness program after I paid all the tax and penalties.
You explain you were having some kind of problem-- health problem or mental problem-- that year and that's why you underpaid. My mom had died one year and I was depressed, and I told them that in the application.
To my amazement they sent back something like 5k in penalties and taxes, because I had never really screwed up before. It's actually quite generous.
Most of the people I dealt with were nice and helpful actually.