In a nut shell. the IRS is telling me that I claimed
80,000.00 in deductions. knowing this is a mistake on a data entry someplace. I am being charged penalties and interest. If I was to even make half as much as they claimed I claimed in deductions in a year, I would be on easy street! I can not get them to realise that it was thier mistake not mine due to my paper copies were distroyed in a flood. can anyone help i have written 4 letters and everone says they will help and the situation gets forwarded to someone else and a few months later I am told to write another letter? First letter Was to get permission to have more time to find out what went wrong. I went to the IRS and found that the information that the clerk pulled up was wrong on the w2's, schedule C and mostly all the other documents were wrong. (I can give a copy of the worksheet she gave me). I did not claim over eight hundred thousand dollars in deductions. This was the first clue that the system was not correct. Second letter Have the adjustments made on the tax return.Third letter Letter sent to have the penalties and interest removed, and the tax forms adjusted. This letter was bumped moved up the chain of the IRS. Fourth letter again asking for all penalties and interest be removed. This was a mistake on the part of the IRS not mine and do not feel that I should be charged for your mistake. Can somone please please tell me what i am doing wrong? how can i make the IRS realise it's their mistake not mine?