If you owe back taxes and do not cooperate with IRS attempts to collect, wage garnishment is an effective tool that forces you to pay up. Each time you fail to respond to a letter requesting payment, you’re taking another step towards wage garnishment. And once the IRS issues a wage garnishment order to your employer, he or she will have no choice but to comply.
Self-employed taxpayers are not immune to wage garnishment either. The IRS will simply issue the order to the businesses that pay you contract or freelance wages.
