Taxpayer Advocate Proposes IRS Apologies And Payments

Jan 10, 2008 6 Replies

Not a bad idea if they also include oppressed tax preparers



-- of which I am not one. However, I shall not hold my breath until it happens.



From: washingtonpost.com



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The advocate also urged that the outside tax collector program be discontinued. In another web article, it was pointed out that predictions were for collectors to raise between $1.5 and $2.2 billion over the next ten years. The IRS now estimates that the private debt collectors reported gross revenue at $31 million for the 2007 fiscal year.


"William Brenner" wrote

Maybe there's a learning curve, and it'll get made up in the later years.

That is how I begin every examination of one of my clients, asking for an apology and payment of some kind.

"It (IRS) had estimated yearly collections would reach a midpoint average of about $185 million." Long way to go.

Probably somewhere on this Board but can one of you folks please post a link or the URL where the Taxpayer Advocate proposed this? The National head of TAO or "just" a local TA?

I was not aware of this and it may be very relevant to one of my client's imminent seizure of his residence case (which I feel should be closer to apology mode than loss of home mode).

Thanks.

Yes, it was Nina Olsen's annual report which you'll find on the IRS.gov website.

ChEAr$, Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA

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