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You have just come from the bank and have found out that you have a levy on your bank account. This may be a desolating thing. You have probably already ran into what kind of trouble this will make in you and your family’s life. You are asking, “What do I do now?”
There are a great deal of reasons why the IRS would put a levy on your bank account. Here are a few:
o You have unpaid taxes to the IRS
o You have not filed numerous tax returns
o You have not so long ago moved and your IRS notices have not been received
o You defaulted on your Installment Agreement with the IRS
The IRS uses levies as a way to impose a penalty on you, the taxpayer, for not paying your taxes. A Notice of Levy will be served to your bank and is attached to your account. The IRS may take all of it. The good news is that the bank does not have to give the cash to the IRS for 21 days. The 21 days starts with the date on the levy. Act quickly. You need to make arrangements with the IRS regarding your taxes before this waiting amount of time is up. Remember, you will not be capable to use the funds in your account until the IRS releases the levy.
Release of a Bank Account Levy
The release of a levy is not an easy task specially when it comes to bank accounts. One of the following will have to occur:
o Your taxes are salaried in full or you make arrangements for an Offer in Compromise or file for bankruptcy
o You show that the time limit for collections has expired. This is normally 10 years from the date of assessment.
o You may prove to the IRS that the release of the levy will facilitate collection of the taxes.
o An Installment Agreement is reached with the IRS.
o You will experience a financial hardship without these funds.
o Your bank account amount surpasses the amount owed to the IRS.
You will have to be capable to figure out a way to put yourself in one of these categories. Contact the IRS officer who signed the levy notice. If this does not work, make an appointment with his manager. Provide the data necessary, make arrangements to pay your taxes, or ask for an appeal.
Take All Of Me
On his sixtieth birthday, Sacramento Real Estate Broker Rick Vernor receives in the mail, along with birthday cards and advertisements, a note accusing him of being ”an abomination in the sight of God” who is next in line to die for his sins for writing ”dirty books” forty years ago. Rick soon learns that at least two other Gay men have received similar threats from the same killer, but no one has any idea who the murderer might be. The mystery deepens as two handsome Sheriff’s Homicide Detectives visit Rick, investigating a recent murder, where a page from one of his novels, Too Big, was attached to the dead man’s genitals. As Rick and his new friend search for clues, romance starts to blossom amid them but is frustrated by the fact that David is young sufficient to be Rick’s son. The kinship dwindles, then rekindles as they closely die for their love.
About the AuthorDirk Vanden has been called ”a pioneer of gay erotica.” Seven of his novels were published to high critical acclaim in 1969-73, when homosexuality was illegal and gay creative writing of recognized artisti value banned. Some of those original books are still available on the web. The All Trilogy (I Want It All, All Or Nothing, and All Is Well) are available as e-books. All of Me (Can You Take All of Me?) utilizes his publishing experiences as the basis of a gay murder mystery.
At age seventy-seven, a survivor of the AIDS pandemic (he never got it), Dirk lives in Carmichael, CA, with his dog, Buddy Jr.
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A Mystery to Die For
With his primary mystery novel – naturally, a Gay mystery – Dirk Vanden presents a suspenseful, tense, powerful, provocative mystery, with a little group of characters of strong wills and now and again unclear motivations. A series of messages sent to – or placed strategically on the dead body of – respective characters are judged to be evident productions of a sick mind, the mind of a self-appointed crusading “prophet,” who surrounds his psychopathic personality disorder with a warped halo of imagined divine retribution. Since this is a mystery, the reader shouldn’t suppose too a great deal of details here. Two, however, can’t be avoided: first, the solution is unexpected and violent; second, the novel is interesting, delightful, funny, scary, mind-boggling and at last (thankfully) sweet and as cuddly as a warm puppy on a cold day.
- Chico
Dirk Vanden’s latest work mixes mystery with personal philosophies for a provocative mix
Famous best-selling gay author Dirk Vanden (writer of the groundbreaking “All Trilogy” from the `70s–”I Want It All,” “All or Nothing,” “All is Well”) purports to putting out a “Gay Mystery” with his latest novel. True, there is a mystery underlying the basic premise of “All of Me” and yes, the protagonists are all men who desire other men. But these are just surface conceits. The real story behind this novel is Mr. Vanden himself.
Rick Vernor, a real estate agent residing in Sacramento, California is a celibate recluse after his lover passed from physical life of AIDS decades ago. Having once been a more or less prominent author of homosexual erotica, the past has now come back to haunt him in a genuinely terrifying way. Little does Rick recognise when he wakes up the morning of his 60th birthday that his life will never be the same again. Suddenly, sadistic notes threatening prompt death are scrawled all over pages ripped from his old books, targeting not only the author himself but likewise a reporter for the local gay newspaper and an aging hippie in the hills. As the killer gets closer, the plot thickens to implicate two hunky police officers and a connection amid each single one of the men. As the mystery unfolds, Mr. Vanden’s own philosophies on life, sex, drugs and, most prominently, religion take center stage. While one may not agree with all of Mr. Vanden’s personal musings (even though all the characters do), his strange and provocative take on gay life is not one thing short of fascinating. There are assorted beauteous scenes in the book and a highly eroticized yet creepy denouement with the killer, all leading to a breathless climax.
Whether you’re a tried-and-true fan or a brand new discoverer of Dirk Vanden, this “fictionalized autobiography” is a fantasti addition to his oeuvre of work.
Over-priced, gravely formatted, and only mildly interesting
This novel is only mildly interesting–a somewhat predictable murder mystery, not closely (erotic|sexual pleasure|sexually arousing sufficient to be considered agreeably diverting even as “porn.” Certainly not a shining example of good Gay Literature. The worst offense of the Kindle edition, however, is it is atrocious formatting (or lack thereof). There are almost no paragraph indents or extra linespacing amongst paragraphs; and hard line breaks from the introductory digital file were plainly permitted to remain, so entire paragraphs often times look more like poetry than text (e.g., a full line of text all over the page followed by a single word or two on the next line). There are even a couple of places where the text is just jumbled. In short, it takes more effort to read this shook than the story is worth–and surely more effort than it’s comparatively high price would warrant.
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