Tuesday, July 3, 2007

IRS Audit Saga Continues . . .

Drum Roll Please ..... As my last post on this issue tells you we have 90 days to get all of our "Proof" to the IRS and re-claim our mileage for '04 and '05. I am a Procrastinator, I will announce that to the world, but even if I procrastinate I at least get it done. The IRS agent when we submitted our '03 told us it just needed to be postmarked by the due date for us to be okay. We meet with our tax guy on the 24th of April and turned in everything to him, he tells his secretary to make copies which we watch her do and he prints up the new tax information all while we wait in his office. (That shows you my trusting nature) He then explains he will send the envelope certified so we can verify the IRS received it and shoo's us on our way. We have till the 30th to have this envelope postmarked. On the 27th I find some more information that needs to be forwarded on so my husband does that for me. Then everyone can take a BIG breath and relax, now I figure I have months to wait before we hear from them again. My mistake, on the 3rd of May we receive a huge envelope from the IRS with all of our stuff in it and a letter stating that, they received our stuff too late and therefore we no longer have the right for an audit and basically gave us a big FAT F. With some more Blah, Blahs explaining that our last option is if we can claim the gave us erroneous information and to expect another letter explaining further. You think things are bad now right, keep on reading. My husband calls the office where the letter came in, the lady isn't in, but the secretary says she can help us. We explain what we received and she tells us to Not worry, it isn't what it seems and she'll have the agent call us, but there is nothing to worry about. Hmmm I think that is a little strange since how are they going to audit us with our stuff?? Being the fine upstanding citizens we are that have not been screwed by a government agency yet, we take the advise, I don't worry and we quit pestering them, just like they asked. Until June arrives with two more letters (four actually because we each get our own) These letters inform us that by July 2nd we owe $6,000.00 in change if we don't pay by July 2nd then more fees/interest/default etc.. will be accrued on our balance. If you remember in the past post, we initially only owed 4,000.00 and change, so they refuse to look at our stuff, they refuse to tell us what the problem is and why they are auditing us and now they just decide to raise it another 2k for kicks and giggles? You think that is bad, they then proceed to tell us in unoffending Irs language that we lied about our kid being alive in '04 and '05, no problem with him being born in '02 or alive in '03, but apparently he disappeared in the IRS radar for '04 and '05. Because of this finding that not only explains the extra 2k they also found out we are lying, scheming parents who really are not parents we can no longer claim this re-appearing, disappearing child or any other child that they believe do not, will not exist. WHERE DO THEY COME UP WITH THIS STUFF? Is there someone in the IRS building that just sits in a corner laughing to himself as he changes peoples lives to his own desire? Would they like to come live with me for a month to prove that my son really exists he has really been with us his whole life and we really do spend a couple dollars here and there on him, which would give us right to claim him in the past and future. We of course go back to our tax agent with all this new information, he says the he believes the IRS did give us erroneous information and therefore we have a right to file a claim. All we want is for them to give us a fair audit, where we can prove that no, we don't lie on our taxes and yes, we really had a kid during the year '04 and '05.

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