IRS response time

[BLACK BART]

BLACK BART - Posted 3-27

...IRS sent me a letter. To recap; back on October 15th I filed & sent in my tax due check (stop laughing - it's normal for carpenters to live in shacks and auto mechanics/body repairmen to drive unpainted junk cars; why should we be any different?).  Anyway IRS cashed my check the next week (got a bank copy), but one month later sent a letter demanding I pay them that same amount again..  Abby Normal advised ignore and it will go away (said they don't need any more mail), however nothing would do me except to speed things up - I sent a full explanation.  Result: Nov - Ist IRS letter (we need 45 days to check this out)/ Jan - 2nd letter (need 45 more days)/ Mar - 3rd letter (need another 45 days).  

To be continued... 

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APRIL -- 4th IRS letter : "Thank you for your correspondence dated October 27, 2016.  Our records show that your Form 1040 account for the following tax periods is paid in full at this time: December 31, 2015."

FIVE MONTHS AND TEN DAYS TO VERIFY THEY HAD CASHED A CHECK.  Anybody with a serious tax problem is probably looking at a year.

 

        

[FDNY]

They must have a great system over there as eventually everything gets processed.....just a little slow.   I always tell clients to wait for a response that it was remediated or if more info is needed or maybe never hear anything..  So like you and me and the mechanic and carpenter, things may look a little salty and rough, but it works, and we know how to fix it when it stops working.

[BLACK BART]

20 hours ago, FDNY said:

They must have a great system over there as eventually everything gets processed.....just a little slow...

Just thinking about it and that's right - it does get processed eventually. At first I was thinking it's incompetence, but maybe instead it's just that they have a mountain of stuff to do and since their staff keeps getting reduced, it takes a long time to get around to each person in turn. 

I remember once looking at TIGTA's (IRS oversight outfit - Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration) website and got into a message board there.  Actual IRS employees were taking suggestions from tax preparers and taxpayers.  One back-and-forth was especially interesting; an agent was replying to somebody and said he thought their idea was a really good suggestion.  He said he was going to put it into the system, but not to expect a quick result because it generally took two years for them to implement a change.