Being Audited Continued ...

I am trying to continue my story with the boys up, so we'll see how that goes. So the day of the audit comes for 2003, do to another mix up??? Somehow we just get rejected (I believe it had to do with the IRS agent not knowing what he was doing, see story 2004/2005) they forward our file to the next department which is out of our State, but in another State that is over all of Western United States IRS. (Talk about personal care) We have 90 days to send our information into them for another Re-Audit and they are our last stop. Before we find that out we spend 48 hours (yes all day both days) going through our files and pulling out every shred of evidence that we have proving that what we claimed was real for '04 and '05. Our Tax guy meets with the IRS Agent, the IRS agent looks through everything, says our food claim was good, told the Tax guy our mileage claim should work, and our charitable contribution was good. We wait again to hear the final results of the audit. Weeks pass by, then we receive a letter from the IRS, saying BLAH, BLAH, BLAH you owe 2,000.00 in something for '04 and 2,000.00 in something for '05. Remember we paid 2,000.00 + in '05 already and to give you an idea then we didn't make over 50K, but didn't make under 20K so we are below median income, but above poverty. (Not complaining both husband and wife were starting a new business we did okay for that!) So they came back and basically said we owed the same as they said in the first audit letter. We call our tax guy, he is shocked, said he thought the meeting went good and could not understand how the guy could reject all the proof that was in front of his face. So then we call the IRS guy (Well, my husband makes all these calls, I have something of a short fuse and would of either been bawling or yelling 10 minutes into these calls) The IRS guy says the reason he rejected our 03/04/05 is because we claimed the mileage under our personal and not our business, etc. etc. I would of SCREAMED at that point, Thank goodness for a calm husband. So he tells him that would of been nice to know in the beginning, we could of re-filed the mileage and requested that he lets us do that at this time. The guy said no, not a chance, it's to late. In other words he said, I work for the government, I cannot think outside the box, I have no problem screwing you guys over and sleeping at night. Okay so a little dramatic, but that is how I feel. Again my husband said what can we do, he goes nothing I am forwarding it onto the other IRS department out of this state and you are out of luck. Again my husband persists (love that husband) Finally the guys talks to his supervisor, the supervisor tells him that we will receive a notice from this out of state department and within 90 days we can dispute the audit and have them review it. GREAT finally a solution not a screw you answer!!! So I'll wrap up 2003. We do that claim and re-file our taxes showing them that they owe us $300.00. We don 't hear anything for 6 months, then we finally receive a letter that basically says we owe them nothing and they owe us nothing (at least that is our and the tax guys understanding, we are reading code) Ha, so the IRS is so cheap instead of admitting they screwed up shouldn't of audited us etc.. They make it so they wont even pay us our lousy $300.00!!!