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Oh don't worry. When you get an audit notice you get assigned an agent dedicated to your case. You can talk to them easily. They will talk to you all the time.
by htss2013 2y ago
Oh don't worry. When you get an audit notice you get assigned an agent dedicated to your case. You can talk to them easily. They will talk to you all the time. It's amazing. The question and answer flow is just non ending.
- CamperBob2 2y agoI got an audit notice once. The agent never answered his phone or my voicemails. Ended up having to actually drive down to the Federal Building and hunt down his cubicle on the deadline date. That said, the process was pretty smooth, and since I wasn't trying to pull any tax shenanigans, not all that upsetting. There are any number of corporations whose customer service is far worse than the IRS's.
- hackernewds 2y agoCompanies will provide you just as strong customer service if they believe you owe them money. It's the flip side that is the gauge
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI made an error on my tax form one year causing the IRS to say I owed a whole year of taxes, and I was able to resolve it amicably even after they realized they weren’t going to be getting any money from me. When you are in accounts payable, the service does get better. I’m in one of those now again because we forgot to file the 1099s for the RSUs sold to satisfy my wife’s ordinary income tax on RSU grants. Of course, since it was sold to pay ordinary income tax the cost basis adjusts all the way up, they haven’t gotten back to me yet.
- bombcar 2y agoEvery interaction with the IRS I’ve had has been top notch, if sometimes excruciatingly slow. That includes the “you forgot cost basis in day trading so you made fifty million dollars” letter a friend got, to the “you are an idiot and filed wrong, here’s the few grand we owe you unless you really want to contest” because of forgetting withholding.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoBut I do worry ... that I may not get an audit notice. I thought that as an American, I was entitled to one, since people go one about this all the time. In 35 years, I've never received one. Oh wait ... the audit rate is 0.38% Oh and wait again .. > Of the more than 164 million individual income tax returns filed with the IRS last year, only 626,204 were audited—down from 659,003 during fiscal year 2021. Of those 626,204 audits, 93,595 were regular audits while the remainder (532,609) were correspondence audits, which are usually done for simple mistakes on a tax return and can be easily corrected through mail correspondence with the IRS. https://gallerosrobinson.com/insight-inside/irs-audit-rates-dropped-to-0-38-in-2022-millionaires-audit-rates-at-1-1/ https://gallerosrobinson.com/insight-inside/irs-audit-rates-... Hmm. I guess I'll have to keep waiting for my dedicated agent and terrifying audit process.
- BuyMyBitcoins 2y agoThe IRS gained this reputation in the 1980’s when audits were much more common and likely to happen to middle class people. It may have been warranted, though, because Congress passed a law that required people to provide a social security number for the dependents claimed on the return. Before that, you could just claim you had a dependent without providing proof. And, lots of people did just that.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoA dependent saves you a rather small amount of tax. By my understanding, audits are focused primarily on failure to report actual income, or claiming outsized business expense.
- mindslight 2y agoAlso in the 1980's, corporate customer service was still staffed by reasonably competent and empowered employees. So having that for comparison, the government failure modes of incompetence getting entrenched plus layered bureaucracy looked quite poor. Now the corporate fashions have gotten rid of all the competent reps, through underpay and disciplining anybody that speaks up. And corporations have developed even more bureaucratic diffusion of responsibility than government! Add in the cherry on top of offshoring (heavy accent plus lowest-bidder voip jitter), corporate customer service has become generally terrible. So with that backdrop, one expects that calling the government will be even worse. But what you actually find are reps that have the bandwidth to actually understand at least some of what they're talking about, as they haven't been squeezed like the corporate world has.
- yieldcrv 2y agoThis reminds me of the anti pattern to delete a facebook account quicker, than even if you find the delete button Just post porn instead
- supertrope 2y agoFile a DMCA takedown request.
- yieldcrv 2y agoagainst yourself? that reminds me I know people that used to do that to get their google results curated
- leejo 2y agoI had to do this years ago when someone registered my email address on an online dating service, I kept getting spam from it. I sent support requests, messages, help tickets, asking for them to remove my address or change it - no response. Used the "forgot password" link, logged in, posted porn. Account deleted in about 5 minutes.
- saghm 2y agoDid the site not have a way to delete the account once you logged in, or did you not feel like spending time looking for it given that you had already had your time wasted by them?
- extraduder_ire 2y agoThat gets your account banned, not deleted. You can get it back at any time by promising to not do it again, and sending a copy of your ID.
- lulznews 2y agoThey made it harder to reach humans recently.