Posted on 06/20/2017 6:39:00 PM PDT by OKSooner
Someone hired a CPA to do their taxes. Lots of schedules and attachments. Homeowners, professional person with lots of business expenses, and a small business owner.
Late getting it all together, took everything to CPA in early April.
CPA's staff prepares the return, CPA reviews it with the people, and the return gets sent to the IRS.
(Paper return because some smartass tried to run an identity theft on them in January and file a false return, which to their credit the IRS caught and sent a letter to the people letting them know what happened.)
Anyway last week the couple gets a polite letter from the IRS acknowledging receipt of their real tax return and axing them to please send them a copy of their Schedule A, itemized deductions.
Say what?
Is this industry practice, to NOT include Schedule A to a 1040 tax return for a married couple?
How might the IRS respond to this aside from the obvious polite letter asking for it?
With a refund involved, how might it affect the timing of the refund?
If the IRS asks for anything send CERTIFIED mail.
They take forever to respond to you and you need proof they received what you sent.
Reference.
They may get a late penalty - but with a polite letter from the CPA, it will be waived.
“Not enough real estate taxes”...
How will those of us with some serious real estate taxes fare under the new IRS proposed rules?
I'm not an expert on the IRS or taxes. I don't know anything about new proposed IRS rules. I just prepared all my own returns and filed them myself since 1961, the first year I filed.
Retired on social security income and run three small businesses from my home. I don't pay income taxes with my deductions.
IF the CPA sent the return to the IRS, the CPA is responsible for the Schedule A.
Have the CPA attend to this matter - that is what your FRiend paid the CPA to do.
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