Treasury Inspector General requesting POA

[jklcpa]

I only very occassionally have to request POAs. I got one last fall for a client through the e-services and quickly resolved the issue. Today I received a request from the Treasury Inspector General's office of audit for a copy of the signed Form 2848. The letter said that the Dept of the Treasury is conducting an independent review to ensure tax professionals who electronically submit 2848s to the IRS really did obtain the taxpayer approval and authorization.

So it looks like even more monitoring of us tax professionals. Has anyone else received one of these yet?

[Jack from Ohio]

Haven't used e-services for 2848 yet, but your situation does grab my attention!!