IRS made a mistake and making me pay

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?

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Reply to
sstillwagon
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Contact the IRS Taxpayer Advocate Service. See: .

Reply to
Jonathan Kamens

When they assessed your tax return and you noticed their results were different, did you warn them? That isn't mentioned.

Reply to
parrisbraeside

You should contact your CPA/tax professional to help you. The first step would likely be to get a transcript from the IRS. That might help to find the error in the IRS' systems. ___________________________________

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Reply to
Benjamin Yazersky CPA

I am just an individual who has dealt with the IRS on similar issues; I am not a CPA (nor do I play one on television). In any event, I think what you need is patience. It may take months, or longer, for something like this to be resolved. I also found it to be much more effective to contact the IRS via telephone, using the phone number given on the notice(s) they sent, then to engage in letter writing. I believe you will continue to receive notices that you owe taxes until things are finally resolved. But if you make the phone calls, and keep records of those calls (written notes with the ID of the agent), you should be OK. In my case, everything, including the abatement of penalties (and interest on the erroneous tax assessment) was handled over the phone, and confirmed by the IRS to me in writing subsequently. I always asked the agent when I should call back if the problem had not been resolved, and I followed up.

--ron

Reply to
Ron Rosenfeld

One way is to reconstruct your true tax return. Obtain copies of W2's from where you did work, and other documents, e.g. 1099's. Did someone else prepare your return? If so, get a copy if available. Only then can you have some basis for comparing it with any erroneous information IRS might have. you might also consider hiring some local and competent help in your area, either a CPA or EA, to represent you before the IRS. Now, was it 80,000 or 800,000$? (see above)

ChEAr$, Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

Reply to
Harlan Lunsford

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