
Although the number of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offers in compromise (OIC) received increased by 9.98% in 2021, the number of offers approved only increased by 6.06%. Therefore, the IRS OIC acceptance rate for 2021 fell by 1.1% to 30.7% in comparison to 2020. 30.7% represents a differential of 12.1% from the OIC all-time acceptance rate high of 42.8% back in 2016. Moreover, the average amount per offer in compromise accepted increased by 3,520.24 or 31.83%.