I just called my accountant, were going to mail them the letter they sent me saying they found my money and applied it to my account. What a waste of time.:rolleyes:

............that'll be $500...........thank you very much Mr. Hatterasguy...........

OMG! After reading things that can and do go wrong when dealing with the IRS, I've been lucky, no, da#n lucky for the past 38 or so years.

I'll concur with Brian Carleton too, in that having your CPA research anything is going to cost you more money. Almost 30 years ago, I had forgot to pay Federal taxes on stock dividends (it's easy to do, btw) and here I get an invoice from the IRS for a hundred and a half or so more tax due. I called my CPA in Memphis, TN. at the time to look into it, and I also have to pay him a hundred to confirm it. Next time this happened years later (fuhgetting to pay Federal tax on stock dividends) - I just sent the IRS the amount they asked for - and 86ed the CPA deal. For 15 years I've got the best and cheapest CPA money can buy, and she doesn't gig me with an invoice for asking a question or two through the year.

Nah he won't charge me for it.

If I were you...........I would have just paid the $150. and been done with it...................

What's his phone number..........??

You want it? He is quite good, my attorney has been using him for 20 years and my uncle for probably about 10.

I wasn't as wise then......I learned that I actually owe money when I get invoiced by them.

Bookeeping (keeping up with my paperwork & various 1099DIV stuff) hasn't been a strong suit for me.

Of course...........I'm going to call him up and tell him that you're loaded and to charge you $500. for that IRS letter............

No I'm broke I'm glad he is reasonable.

I got lucky on my only dealing with the IRS, they had some expense totalled in with my earnings and said I owed them a few thousand dollars tax. I sent the paperwork and got a case closed letter within about 4 weeks.

problem with their attitude is so many people lie to them they just assume everyone is lying. and it takes an act of congress to fire a gov't employee so why should they care.

You want to see what the gov. does with your tax dollars read this. It was a Frontline show. Print it out and send it to your friends.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

I always sent my returns in, both Fed and State, Certified, Return Receipt, showing that someone, somewhere, signed for the damn things. I kept the tags and all related minutia 'til the 7-year experation point.

Still, I got one letter claiming "No reciept from you...duck, we're coming!"

I called 'em up, got a fax number and shot the paperwork down to them...everything checked out...including the copy of the cashed check they had claimed they never got.

Haven't heard from them (knock on wood) since.

Now, this past year, I filed via "E" ... Am I screwed? :eek: :rolleyes: :cool:

I just get a notary to send mine, and certify what was in the envelope, etc, and I get a certificate of what was in there, and copy of the receiver sig, etc...
In the US, apparently, the post office is able to certify the contents of a letter, as well as delivery. That could be good to have. It's called a roundate, or something like that...

All these horror stories of how the IRS screws up and screws over so many people...

And to think, these are the same guys who will now be telling us how much extra in taxes we owe under this HC Reform Bill.:eek:

Just frakkin wonderful.:(