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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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There’s No Basis for that Argument August 25, 2021
Yesterday, TIGTA release a report, “Efforts to Address the Compliance Risk of Underreporting of S Corporation Officers’ Compensation Are Increasing, but More Action Can Be Taken.” From the report: TIGTA’s analysis of all S corporation returns received between Processing Years 2016 through 2018 identified 266,095 returns with profits greater than $100,000, a single shareholder, and […]
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Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, Is More Important than Ever August 11, 2021
It’s exactly 399 miles from my office to the Post Office in Fresno, California (93779). On my way out of town on my vacation, I stopped at the Post Office to mail a response to an IRS notice. This was a request for a Collection Due Process (CDP) Hearing, and it had a deadline of […]
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Tax Professionals: Use Systemic Advocacy Management System (SAMS) July 23, 2021
With the pandemic, the IRS has faced a lot of issues. One that has faced my clients is the IRS ignoring responses to Automated Underreporting Unit (AUR) notices. These notices are sent when the IRS receives notification of items of income that the IRS thinks should be on the return but are not on the […]
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At Least I’m Not Classified as “Dead” July 16, 2021
I’ve been talking over the past months about the issues faced by taxpayers in dealing with the IRS. Suffice to say, when you have a 3% chance of reaching a human things aren’t going well. But we should always look at the good side of things: I’m still breathing (in reality and in view of […]
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IRS Wakes Up, Still Smells Like Crown Imperials July 7, 2021
Normally when we talk about smelling flowers we’ll use a line like, “Waking up and smelling like roses.” But that is decidedly not the case with this story, so we chose a different plant: Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis). You’ll see why shortly. Back on June 20th we reported on the IRS denying 501(c)(3) status to […]
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Is the IRS Telling Tax Professionals the Truth? July 7, 2021
Yesterday, a fellow tax professional posted on Twitter: Ogden currently has 70 tractor trailers of unopened mail. – per IRS agent trying to explain why a POA from 2019 still hasn’t cleared yet. Yet if you read the IRS Operations page on the current status of IRS operations you get a different picture: [On Individual […]
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