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THE TAXPAYER ADVOCATE SERVICE: A TAXPAYER'S
BEST FRIEND
May 11, 2008 - Need help cutting through IRS red tape to unsnarl a bureaucratic tangle?
In many cases, one of the best places to go is a little-known unit within the Internal Revenue
Service known as the Taxpayer Advocate Service, or TAS, which has about 75 offices around
the country. Its mission: to help taxpayers resolve problems with the IRS -- and to identify
problems affecting groups of taxpayers and propose administrative and legislative changes.
TAS can help taxpayers get a missing refund, for example, or resolve an improperly imposed
penalty that couldn't be cleared up through regular channels. It can also assist taxpayers who
face a financial hardship caused by an IRS action such as taking someone's wages or other
property.
In recent years, more people have been seeking help from TAS staffers, in part reflecting the
IRS's intensified focus on tax-law enforcement. TAS received 247,839 cases in fiscal 2007, up
47% from 168,856 only three years earlier, says Nina Olson, the IRS National Taxpayer
Advocate and head of TAS. This year, TAS expects to receive somewhere between 250,000
and 260,000 cases, says Kenneth Drexler, senior adviser to Ms. Olson.
I needed an IRS Tax Advocate back in 2003 and he helped me turn a $53,000 tax bill into a mere
$1,200 (it was a poker winnings issue at an Indian Casino.) They are truly on your side and do
everything they can in their power to settle your situation with the IRS. In my opinion, paying a
fee to a company that advertises that they can shrink your tax bill is a waste of money. They
can't do anything more than a Tax Advocate can.
Click on the red link above to continue the story.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
BEST FRIEND
May 11, 2008 - Need help cutting through IRS red tape to unsnarl a bureaucratic tangle?
In many cases, one of the best places to go is a little-known unit within the Internal Revenue
Service known as the Taxpayer Advocate Service, or TAS, which has about 75 offices around
the country. Its mission: to help taxpayers resolve problems with the IRS -- and to identify
problems affecting groups of taxpayers and propose administrative and legislative changes.
TAS can help taxpayers get a missing refund, for example, or resolve an improperly imposed
penalty that couldn't be cleared up through regular channels. It can also assist taxpayers who
face a financial hardship caused by an IRS action such as taking someone's wages or other
property.
In recent years, more people have been seeking help from TAS staffers, in part reflecting the
IRS's intensified focus on tax-law enforcement. TAS received 247,839 cases in fiscal 2007, up
47% from 168,856 only three years earlier, says Nina Olson, the IRS National Taxpayer
Advocate and head of TAS. This year, TAS expects to receive somewhere between 250,000
and 260,000 cases, says Kenneth Drexler, senior adviser to Ms. Olson.
I needed an IRS Tax Advocate back in 2003 and he helped me turn a $53,000 tax bill into a mere
$1,200 (it was a poker winnings issue at an Indian Casino.) They are truly on your side and do
everything they can in their power to settle your situation with the IRS. In my opinion, paying a
fee to a company that advertises that they can shrink your tax bill is a waste of money. They
can't do anything more than a Tax Advocate can.
Click on the red link above to continue the story.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
