How to Check the Status of Your Tax Relief Case
Reviewed June 1, 2025
You can check your case status independently of any company you've hired by reviewing your IRS account transcripts, which show filing status, balances, payments, and payment-plan activity directly from the IRS.
Your IRS account is the source of record
Whatever a company or attorney tells you about your case, the underlying facts — whether a return processed, whether a payment posted, whether a balance changed — live in your IRS account, not in anyone's notes about it. Checking that record directly is the most independent way to verify status.
Ways to check
You can request transcripts directly from the IRS, use the IRS's own online account tools, or use an ongoing monitoring service like Relief Monitor that checks this on your behalf and tells you when something meaningful changes, rather than requiring you to look it up manually each time.
What a status check can and can't tell you
It can tell you what's happened in your account — filings, payments, balance movement, payment-plan status. It can't tell you what's happening in a negotiation, what a professional plans to do next, or predict how long a remaining step will take.
See it for yourself, on an ongoing basis
Relief Monitor keeps watching your IRS account after this check, so you don't have to look this up manually each time.
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