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The IRS Can’t Figure Out Where to Apply an Electronic Payment…Where the IRS Was Told Where to Apply It November 30, 2021
My client received a letter from the IRS dated November 22, 2021: Taxpayer identification number: [redacted] Tax Period(s): Dec. 31, 2018 Form: 1040 We received a payment of $2,002.00 on Oct. 08, 2020. We don’t have enough information to apply this payment correctly. Attach a clear copy of both sides of the canceled check or […]
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IRS: Per Diem Is Food Provided by Restaurants November 16, 2021
For tax years 2021 and 2022 taxpayers are allowed to deduct 100% of business meals provided by restaurants (per § 274(n)(2)(D) of the Internal Revenue Code). One question that I had was how the per diem would be treated. Taxpayers have a choice for deducting meal expenses. They can take actual expenses or they can […]
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IRS’s “ID.me”: Not Ready for Prime Time November 15, 2021
This afternoon, I needed to upload an IRS Power of Attorney form to the IRS’s CAF Unit. The IRS advised me (on the login screen) that I should obtain an account on ID.me. The IRS rightly wants to make sure that tax professionals are who they say they are. So the IRS has partnered with […]
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Evergreen Post: IRS Sending Erroneous Balance Due Notices November 5, 2021
Many of our clients have authorized us to receive IRS notices for them. Yesterday, we received three “balance due” (CP14) notices. I was quite surprised, as all three individuals paid their tax by electronic debit with the filing of their tax returns. I ran account transcripts, and all show $0 balances (they did indeed pay, […]
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IRS Efficiency and Inefficiency October 7, 2021
It was with fear and trepidation I logged onto IRS eServices this morning. This is the portal that allows me to download transcripts for clients from the IRS (when I have an authorization). On September 16th, I had electronically uploaded a Power of Attorney for a client. It’s been taking the IRS months to process […]
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Prepare to Panic! September 29, 2021
As I write this, it’s September 29th. Two weeks from Friday is October 15, 2021. That’s the deadline for individual taxpayers on extension to file their tax returns (except for those in disaster areas such as the hurricane that impacted New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Mississippi). If you have yet to send your […]
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It’s Deja Vu All Over Again: IRS *Again* Mailing Erroneous CP259F Notices September 20, 2021
One would think that the IRS would learn from its mistakes. One would be wrong (at least, in this case). Back in November 2020 I wrote a post titled, “IRS Mailing Erroneous CP259F Notices.” That post dealt with taxpayers who filed split-interest trust returns (Form 5227) timely and received notices stating they had not filed those […]
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Tax Relief for Hurricane Ida in New York and New Jersey September 8, 2021
Hurricane Ida created disaster conditions in Louisiana; the IRS previously granted relief for impacted taxpayers in various parishes in the state. President Biden just declared a federal disaster area for many counties in New Jersey and New York (including New York City). The IRS extended the same relief for those taxpayers. Any tax deadline from […]
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Can the IRS be Honest About the Delays in Processing? September 2, 2021
The IRS maintains a webpage showing operational status during the pandemic. Additionally, the IRS periodically sends out “Hot Issue” summaries. One of the items asked in the “Hot Issue” questions was on amended returns: 1040X not processed Issue: When will 1040X be processed? Response: As a result of the backlog in the number of amended […]
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Tax Agencies Need to Modify Deadlines to Account for Post Office Delays August 27, 2021
In today’s mail I received some notices from a tax agency. That’s not unusual: We have many Tax Information Authorizations and Powers of Attorney on file. And it wasn’t out of the ordinary that all three notices were for the same client. What was unusual is that these notices were not dated on the same […]
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