<prompt> Human: I had some unpaid taxes that I am trying to handle and three accountants have told me that getting tax forgiveness is almost impossible. How could those services make such claims if it is in fact very difficult to get relief?  <response>: Marketing. These companies will pick out the extreme examples instead of examples of reductions that werent so big. Which one gets you to pay more attention? The client who owed 100,000 whose tax bill was reduced to 250 or the client who owed 100,000 whose tax bill was reduced to 75,000? Also, you dont know the story of what actually happened. Maybe they found an error in filing taxes so that instead owing 100,000, they actually owed 5,000, which was reduced to 250. 