Comments on: How Does the IRS Pick Tax Returns to Audit?

By: gabrielle s

gabrielle s — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:45:03 +0000

But what if your tax papers got runed? Do you know what too doo?

By: gabrielle s

gabrielle s — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:40:05 +0000

What do you do when your tax papers get ruined or burned?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:00:35 +0000

Can you supply me with the information or which direction to go with this, “now there are rules in place so the accountant cannot claim “I’m just reporting what the client gave me and I did not know” the accountant can now be fined.” The EA that I used for 3 years attached all of my W-2′s and sent them into the IRS but failed to type in the numbers when preparing my taxes. When I receive the audit letters and talked to the EA about it she laughs and says” oops, I forgot to add that, oh well, you have to pay it.” she will not take any responsibility!! I supplied her with the information. SHe has made it quit clear nothing can happen to her. I understand I owe the money, but this is gross incompentency on her part. What can I do?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:27:32 +0000

the irs decided to do an audit on me for the year 1999 just this past 2009 , the year 1999
was paid in full in 2008 because of some problems. why did we wait so long ? there were some theft cercomstances at the cpa office which resulted in the distroyedment of
our records , anyway we managed to do an estimation from previous years advised by our
irs agent who at the time was working with us
now they are threatening to take my home my question is can they do this after the year has been paid in full and is the audit legit
what can i do to have them erase this ridicules tax lean for this year i have proof of the tax lean release for that year when i paid it in full.

thank you texas

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:27:11 +0000

THE IRS AUDIT TAX RETURNS TRUE ENOUGH THEY ARE AUDIT FOR MISTAKES THAT HAS BEEN MADE AND SOMETIME EMPLOYERS MAKE MISTAKE BY NOT HAVING 1099 OR W2 READY IN TIME FOR TAX SEASON. USING YOUR LAST PAY STUB IS’NT A GOOD IDEA EVEN THOUGH IT SHOULD BE CORRECT MOST ARE ‘NT CORRECT YOU WONDER WHY! BECAUSE EMPLOYERS OFTEN CHEAT THE IRS ON THE TAXES THAT NEEDS TO BE SENT IN ON A QUARTERLY BASES AND THIS WILL GIVE THEM ENOUGH TIME TO CORRECTED WHEN BUSINESS ISN’T WHAT IT SHOULD BE OR THAT THEY HAVE ENOUGH MONEY AT THE END OF THE YEAR. IF THIS IS INCORRECT THE 1099 OR W2 THEN AN AMEND RETURN SHOULD BE DONE. I HAVE MANY CLIENTS THAT MAY HAVE THIS ISSUE THAT COMES TO ME IN REGARDS TO THIS AND GENERALLY THERE IS SOMETHING THAT THE OTHER TAX PERSON MAY HAVE MISSED AND IT CAN BE CORRECTED. SO BE VERY CAREFUL WHOM DOES YOUR TAXES AND MAKE SURE THAT THERE EXPERIENCE IS WELL KNOWN.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 08:34:03 +0000

my friend who main citizen is on sepain n he work in germany..n the tax officel make a mistake…his name is PIT not BIT, SO their mix up the account in tax and stolen all his $$ house,shop..to sAID HE DIDNT PAy THE TAX..HE PAY TAX IN SPAIN and never own any single sen in german…how can this be happen..and it take how long to get back the refund if he win the case??really a big mistake..ndo u think the govt willbe in trouble since their already sell his car,house n etc n said only give him 20% of d value..

By: TLK

TLK — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:49:51 +0000

Our C.P.A. firm is handling our first ever audit with the IRS. Previous C.P.A. at the firm left early this year. New one is now doing our stuff. Just found out the old one made several errors on 2008 and 2009 returns. Looks like (after 5 months of waiting for the final report from the IRS) we will be owing 20% interest and 20% penalties even though we had all of our documentation and explainations to the old C.P.A. She just didn’t do it right. How can we protect ourselves if we know nothing about tax code? We pay over 300/month to this firm to do our accounting. First audit in 32 years. She also claimed our ROTH contrib. as an 401k one. Big mistake on her part. This is a nightmare. We are now looking at over 6k in backtaxes and 4k in interest and penalties. There needs to be some responsibility taken by the C.P.A.’s.

By: skylog

skylog — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:27:33 +0000

agreed. i never really had a clue how the process worked. i can’t say that i had as much interest by the IRS as you did alan, but i did have one problem due to an error on my part. it was a fairly painless process.

By: Suzanna

Suzanna — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:10:12 +0000

If you think made a mistake on a past tax return all you need to do is file an amended tax return for that tax year. It’s no big deal.

By: Donna Freedman

Donna Freedman — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:27:39 +0000

Everyone I know shudders at the very word “audit.” A friend of mine did get audited, and lost — and she appealed. Not only did she win her appeal, the IRS agent pointed out a couple of other deductions she could be taking.
Although the experience was nerve-wracking, it had a happy ending.
That said: I hope I never get audited.

By: Strebkr

Strebkr — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:31:58 +0000

If they showed everyone their number that would be a bad idea. So many people would try rolling the dice on their taxes if they had a “low” audit risk number.

By: Strebkr

Strebkr — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:26:47 +0000

Everyone seems to try to wash their hands of anything that smells bad. The accountant will just say “I reported what the client gave me”, and the client will say “hey thats what I pay an accountant for. How was I supposed to know I couldnt deduct that”

By: zapeta

zapeta — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:59:47 +0000

LOL. I’m sure your ancestors had millions of dollars when they came to this country and never needed any help from any kind of governmental agency.

By: billsnider

billsnider — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:02:31 +0000

I would suggest that you contact the IRS and tell them about your problem. Everything will work out in the end. The idea being that you don’t want to surprise the IRS. Get them to help you.

Good luck and I understand your pain. It once happened to my daughter.

Bill snider

By: billsnider

billsnider — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:59:31 +0000

Do you have any rental recipyts or bills addressed to you? Ditto for other such stuff like bank statements.

Bill Snider