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Need Tax Help? Report Offers Slim Chance of Seeing the IRS (Another Reason For The Fair Tax)
Washington Post ^ | October 27, 2006 | Stephen Barr

Posted on 10/29/2006 4:40:21 AM PST by Man50D

Talking taxes with the Internal Revenue Service is never easy. Scheduling an appointment to resolve tax problems isn't, either, according to a recently issued report.

Federal auditors made 36 telephone calls to IRS taxpayer assistance centers to schedule meetings when they could discuss tax issues but were able to set up only five appointments.

Of the 31 failed attempts, four IRS employees did not return calls, and the 27 employees who did "would not, for various reasons, allow the auditors to schedule appointments," according to the report by the Treasury inspector general for tax administration.

The inspector general ran the phone test to gauge whether taxpayers were receiving "quality customer service" when calling local IRS offices to schedule appointments.

The IRS suggests that taxpayers visit the agency's 400 assistance centers when they have complex tax issues, need to resolve tax problems, have questions about tax law or feel more comfortable talking to a person than clicking through the IRS Internet site.

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KEYWORDS: incometax; taxes; taxreform
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To: Dick Bachert

Be assured that I will do exactly that my friend!


21 posted on 10/30/2006 6:52:15 AM PST by Bigun (IRS sucks @getridof it.com)
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To: Bigun
That deserves a repeat, Bigun, so here it is:

We will never again be a truly FREE people so long as there is an income tax and the IRS!

22 posted on 10/30/2006 2:45:49 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Bigun
The phrase "terminate with extreme prejudice" come to mind when pondering what We the People should demand of our government in respect of the IRS.

And, while we are at it, we should pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the imposition of an income tax so that future Americans will not have to endure this nightmare we have lived with for 93 years.

“I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” [Thomas Jefferson, letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.]

Click here, or here help us scrap the Code and scrap the IRS!

We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.

23 posted on 10/30/2006 2:56:23 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: unixfox

See my post #23.


24 posted on 10/30/2006 2:57:16 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Dick Bachert

Great post, Dick!


25 posted on 10/30/2006 2:58:32 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Taxman

Thanks Frank!


26 posted on 10/30/2006 3:06:02 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: Your Nightmare; Always Right; Dimples; sitetest; lewislynn; balrog666; xcamel; Mojave; lucysmom; ...

UFT Ping


27 posted on 10/30/2006 3:09:05 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: xcamel

This thread has nothing to do with the FairTax, it is just a typical UFT hijacking.


28 posted on 10/30/2006 3:13:07 PM PST by RobFromGa (The GOP will retain the Senate and House in 2006- Let's Do Something With It!)
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To: RobFromGa

indeed


29 posted on 10/30/2006 3:24:56 PM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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