Decades of Neglect Leave IRS in Tax Season 'Chaos'

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Decades of Neglect Leave IRS in Tax Season ‘Chaos’

March 4, 2022 at 3:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 11 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2022/03/04/decades-of-neglect-leave-irs-in-tax-season-chaos/

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New York Times: “Officials have warned of another rocky tax filing season ahead, saying it could be a ‘very frustrating tax season for both tax payers and tax professionals.’ Democrats have pointed to the tumult as evidence that the agency needs more funding. Mr. Biden has called for investing $80 billion in the agency over a decade to help crack down on tax cheats, estimating that would raise $400 billion in tax revenue.”

“But tax-averse Republicans, who have spent years cutting the agency’s budget, have seized on the I.R.S.’s problems as proof it should not be given more money or responsibility, with at least one lawmaker calling for the tax collector to be abolished.”

“Much of the agency’s current woes can be traced to those budget cuts, which have eroded the agency’s ability to function at a critical moment.”

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[Joinfortmill]

1. Received my tax refund today. Pays to file early.

[JCMach1]

2. IRS never cashed my mom's tax check from last year

They told her not to worry about it.

They are more than 12months behind on paper tax forms.

[Diablo del sol]

3. The place is a mess

They said I owed them 10k from my 2017 filing. Got the notice in 2019. Spent hours trying to get through to them, no luck, so had to pay or get a huge penalty and payroll garnishments.

Accountant took over, basically same story, she could never get through. Ended up getting a letter from State of CA asking for another 2k, accountant said to ignore as she was working with Feds. CA did garnish wages, so I paid, accountant sent documents provided to IRS and State of CA turned around refund in 30 days.

Continued to fight IRS, got a form letter last October that was basically worthless. Ended up get a tax advocate assigned after engaging Katie Porters office. Person left VM for me, called him back a dozen times asking for face to face. (His voicemail says it will be about 30 to 45 days for him to respond) Finally got a letter from him on Monday, stated "yes we do owe you 10k but you missed the statue of limitations by a month."

Unfriggen believable, they provide numbers that all go straight to VM, ignore requests for meetings. So today I faxed him the letter the Accountant sent five months prior to the deadline he provided me on 2/25. Went to the IRS office in Laguna Niguel, a ghost town, only response I got from the person in the office, call your tax advocate, three times I told her, I have called him a dozen times in the last two months and just get voicemail.

Will be interesting to see a response. Left the advocate another message, you have documents from Accountant requesting refund that was provided months before a deadline that was just provided to me on Monday. And by the way, asked for interest on the refund as they charged me $680 of interest in 2019, they should use the same interest rate for the money they demanded from me.

Bluntly, they act like shakedown artists. Took an incorrect 1099 filing form Merrill Lynch, ignored the documents I sent them showing that the stock sale was only 15% profit, not the 100% profit on the form they received from Lynch.

Pay up or deal with liens and garnishments, then when proven wrong, refuse to pay and refuse to acknowledge you can't get a person to work the issue in a professional manner. Then have the gall to send a letter stating, you were right but we still aren't paying you because the two year statute of limitation applies.

Will see how they respond now that they have letter directly to them with the back up documentation five months prior to that two year deadline.

In a normal organization it would be a one hour meeting and resolved, in the world of the IRS it appears to be, pay us and fuck off, we don't respond, tough shit.

[tritsofme]

4. My refund came less than a week after I filed.

So not my experience at least.

[MOMFUDSKI]

5. We got a bill due on our final business tax filing.

We don't feel we owe that $840. so there is a phone number on the bill to call. Have been calling for 3 weeks now and after going thru all the bullshit press this and press that the final message is they are just too busy to talk now and please call again tomorrow. Finally Emailed our congresscritter and actually got a response via a letter in the mail. Had to fill out a gubment form and fax it back before he can do any research or such of our case. In the meantime we had to write the check and mail it to the IRS so as not to incur horrendous interest of which they warned us in the letter, of course. One more thing: I called my local IRS Office thinking they could help us thru their office, but their phone message says, "We actually don't do phone calls".

[House of Roberts]

6. Not 'neglect'.

Republican sabotage.