irs agent extends Filing deadline 2 weeks?

[Max W]

Client called the IRS to get transcripts and the IRS person also extended the filing deadline 2 weeks.

I know they can extend deadlines to file when it is related to installment agreements and the like, but for the actually filing deadline????

Anyone ever heard of this?

[ILLMAS]

Have them call back to confirm and to get back to you.

[Max W]

33 minutes ago, ILLMAS said:

Have them call back to confirm and to get back to you.

Good Idea!  I'll also ask the client to get the persons name and ID number.

[Lee B]

Perhaps this is what happened

Your client calls on Monday October 3rd and gets a transcript and while talking, the agent says you have 14 more days to file, which is October 17th.

 

[Max W]

The client had already called back, before I requested him to do so, and confirmed it with a second personand he was told he had an extension until the end of the month.

[Lee B]

If so, I hope someone can come up an explanation and some documentation explaining how this procedure works.

Can I tell my my client that if he calls in and asks for a transcript he will automatically get an additional 14 day extension ?

 

[ILLMAS]

Here it is, extended until February 2023

 

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-announces-tax-relief-for-victims-of-hurricane-ian-in-florida

 

 

[Lee B]

My clients aren't in a covered disaster area?

[Max W]

2 hours ago, Lion EA said:

Wow! I have nearly a dozen I'm not going to complete by the 17th. (New tax laws added something new to almost every return, so it's taking me a bit longer preparing/proofing each return. Same number of clients, but I won't be done on time!) If it would gain me two weeks, I'd wait on hold to get a few clients extensions.

The client requested an extension, as well as the transcripts.  I don't know that the transcripts played a roll or not.

[Lee B]

14 minutes ago, Max W said:

The client requested an extension, as well as the transcripts.  I don't know that the transcripts played a roll or not.

So what are the requirements for asking for and receiving an additional 14 days?

[Max W]

I just spoke to my client and he told me he had gotten another extension to Nov. 30.  ???

[DANRVAN]

4 hours ago, Max W said:

I just spoke to my client and he told me he had gotten another extension to Nov. 30.  ???

I question that.  I am not aware of any authority for an agent to grant a filing extension?   How well do you know this client?  You mentioned a transcript, new client?

[Lee B]

46 minutes ago, DANRVAN said:

I question that.  I am not aware of any authority for an agent to grant a filing extension?   How well do you know this client?  You mentioned a transcript, new client?

I agree, I still wonder whether your client is confused?

[Lion EA]

Maybe they are halting dunning letters until then, but deadline and accruing P&I continue as usual.

[ILLMAS]

How does you client manage to talk to someone in the IRS so often?

[Catherine]

Does your client often hear these voices? More to the point, do those voices recommend anything dangerous to you?

[DANRVAN]

20 hours ago, Catherine said:

 do those voices recommend anything dangerous to you?

"DON'T DRINK THE WATER!"