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Perhaps you own some property that you were planning to sell sometime in the near future. However, you received notice in the mail that a lien has been placed on that property to secure a debt that you owe. This means that it will be very difficult to sell your property, if not impossible.

What Is a Lien?

A lien is basically a form of collateral that secures a loan. The IRS can record a lien against you because you perhaps did not pay your taxes. This is placed usually on property, like your home or real estate, though any form of collateral is considered a type of lien, which is basically some type of asset that will be seized from you if you do not pay your debt.

How Does It Relate to Your Credit Report?

Your credit report shows any liens that you currently have. When the IRS records a lien against you, it shows up on your credit report because failure to pay your taxes can be a sign that you may fail to make credit payments in the future. Creditors need to know this if you ever try to apply for credit with them because they want to know if you will be able to pay them back before they borrow you money.

Process of Removal

Removing a tax lien from your credit report is not really possible unless it was put there wrongfully. If this is the case, you should dispute it. However, if you rightfully deserve the tax lien on your credit report, it will stay there for about seven years.

Eliminating the Lien

There are several ways you can get rid of a tax lien. One, you pay the owed taxes. This seems simple, but the reason you probably got this tax lien is for the very reason you may not be able to take this option: You simply do not have the money.

You could wait it out, but this is not advised. If you are planning on selling your property anytime soon, you will not want to wait it out because it could take ten years for the lien to be forgiven by the IRS, in which time it will be almost impossible to sell your property. You also face the risk of having the lien extended by the IRS, depending on whether or not they feel the money it would cost them to extend it.

However, you could request that your lien be temporarily removed so that you could sell your property. If you intend to sell your property in order to pay the owed taxes and eliminate the lien, the IRS is sometimes willing to temporarily remove it so that you can sell your property and get the money to pay them. No matter what option you take, the record of the lien will not be removed from your credit report, but the IRS will report to the credit bureaus that you have paid the money owed, which will be of some benefit on your report.