if you are not engaged in privileged activity that creates gains or profits, and you paid someone nearly a grand to do your taxes, the problem is not the IRS, the problem is your ignorance of the nature of the 16th Amendment income EXCISE tax that is limited to certain privileged activities.
As stated by Milton Freidman in 1942, because the government ‘information forms’ will be sent to and filled out by every business, from sally’s alterations to jim’s grocery, ‘income taxes’ will be withheld from a great deal of person’s earnings who do not owe the tax. And to get the erroneously held tax refunded and back in your bank account where is should have been all along, one needs to file the proper forms with the IRS that rebut the erroneous information the ignorant employers put on those govt forms that are meant to be used ONLY for reporting gains/profits from privileged activity.
We are self employed, thus we do not have anyone filing erroneous information in our name/SS number, therefore we are not required to file any rebuttals. Our granddaughter’s parents filed early this year and have received back 100% of all income & FICA taxes withheld, just as the law states they should.
So maybe you should become an informed filer rather than letting an agent of the IRS do your taxes, YES.. ALL CPA’s are agents of the IRS due to the nature of the privilege they receive by their working association with the IRS. The ONLY ones in need of a CPA are those engaged in privileged activity. Anyone not engaged in privileged activity need only to take less than 30 min to file out the rebuttal forms, put them in an envelope and mail them to the proper IRS facility that is associated with the state wherein you live.
Or maybe you should find out what it’s like to be in the 1%. Someone has to pay for all the freeloaders.