If you pay someone to prepare your tax return, know that you are legally responsible for what’s on your tax return even if it is prepared by someone else. So, it is important to choose carefully when hiring an individual or firm to prepare your...
The Taxpayer Advocate's 2010 annual report to congress describes continuing concern that IRS collection practices inflict unnecessary harm on financially struggling taxpayers and fail to achieve the IRS’s overriding objective of increasing long-term voluntary compliance with the tax laws. “Tax collection requires a delicate balancing...
90-day letter Term includes the 150-day letter. Admin File A file consisting of one or more examined tax returns of a taxpayer, the report of examination, and all papers, correspondence, and other documents relative to the taxpayer's liability for the year or years involved. An administrative file may also...
The IRS released Announcement 2011-05 creating opportunity for small business and self-employed taxpayers to use the Fast Track Settlement process to resolve disputes within the IRS's Small Business/Self Employed (SB/SE) units of the IRS in certain locations including Chicago, Ill.; Houston, Texas; St. Paul, Minn.; Philadelphia,...
The Department of Justice, Tax Division, working together with the IRS, has intensified its efforts to shut down fraudulent tax return preparers and promoters of tax-fraud schemes, using both civil and criminal enforcement. Under the Tax Division’s civil injunction program, the Division files a lawsuit seeking...
According to the IRS millions of workers will see their take-home pay rise during 2011 because the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 provides a two percentage point payroll tax cut for employees, reducing their Social Security tax withholding rate from...
Letter 525 – General 30 Day Letter This letter accompanies a report giving you a computation of the proposed adjustments to your tax return. It informs you of the courses of action to take if you do not agree with the proposed adjustments. The letter explains...
Letter 11 – Final Notice of Intent to Levy and Notice of Your Right to a Hearing This letter is to notify you of your unpaid taxes and that the Service intends to levy to collect the amount owed. The letter and referenced publications explain how...
See Revenue procedure 2009-44 as well as Internal Revenue Manual 35.5.5 for more information. There are two basic types of cases considered by IRS appeals officers. They are non-docketed cases and docketed cases. In non-docketed cases typically, exam conducts an audit of a return and proposes...
The Mission of IRS Appeals is to resolve tax controversies without litigation on a basis which is fair and impartial to both the government and the taxpayer in a manner that will enhance voluntary compliance and public confidence in the integrity and the efficiency of...
