[SeekAndFind]

Forget the war on women... what about this slogan — WAR ON CHILDREN...

[Uncle Miltie]

Adoption avoids abortion.

Investigations must commence.

[gotribe]

That’s really nice of them. After we spend months of bureaucratic paper work processing, psychological testing, thumb-printing and FBI background checks, lots of money...they audit us for claiming a legal credit. Phuk em.

[taildragger]

My enrolled agent gnome with a national firm and my own research tells me :-)....

Yes this Home Office Deductions, and Earn Income Tax Credit with all these unique new "Households" i.e. kids living with their Aunt and Uncle as the main source of support, because their parents are "whatever is wrong with them", are all flags.

What I was told was the 16,000 agents Are not for Obamacare They were for EITC alone and other like parts of the code that are time and energy suckers and by adding that many people obviously someone felt these programs are being abused...

[Dr. Sivana]

We were one of the ones “audited”, and it didn’t go beyond the “mail more documentation” in phase.

Nearly everyone that year was audited, but it wasn’t terribly onerous. It did, of course, delay the badly needed replenishing of funds. One consequence of the tax credits is the overnight massive increase in agency and attorney fees.

Things do get more complicated if (for whatever reason) you do not have an SSN for adoptee. You have to go and get an ATIN (Adoptive Taxpayer Identification Number).

[mom4melody]

That’s us!

We adopted in 2002 and 2006 and claimd the credit both times.

2002 no issues...2006 was a nightmare.

[cookcounty]

Why did no one ask about this in the hearings?

[cookcounty]

With 80% plus of adoptive families being conservative, is this a screwy attempt to harass conservatives?

Or to diminish abortion alternatives?

[Labyrinthos]

Of the completed adoption tax credit audits, over 55 percent ended with no change in the tax owed or refund due in fiscal year 2012.

If I'm reading this correctly, 45% of the audits resulted in additional tax being owed. If so, then it seems to me that this is a high return audit area for an IRS agent looking for a bonus -- similar to the high return resulting from audits of taxpayers who claim a home office deduction or a large deduction for unreimbursed employment expenses.

[ChildOfThe60s]

wrongdoing = committing crimes

Let’s eliminate the use of the chicken$hit word “wrongdoing” when describing liberals and government.

Ditto for “misstatement”. It’s lying.

Both words should be ripped from contemporary lexicon.

[JoeProBono]

[SunshinesStormySummerSon]

Thank you for your post. We, too, were audited because of the adoption credit. The most frustrating part of the process - besides the fact that it took nearly a year and that we had so many requests for additional information that we were starting to wonder if the IRS was going to ask us to send them our child next - was the number of conflicting responses we received via phone and mail and the number of locations we had to submit paperwork to. None of the individuals we spoke to seemed to know anything about what we’d been told by others. We received letters from different offices that contradicted each other. Sometimes we received contradictory letters from the same office. Even after the audit was finished and we had received our refund, we received a letter asking for additional information; evidently accurate lines of communication within the agency is a challenge.

Until reading your post, we assumed our experience was very unusual. How troubling to learn otherwise - especially now that the citizens of our great Nation must face the dysfunction of this agency as it oversees the implementation of Obamacare.

[left that other site]

Well...
Adoption is the sane, moral, and decent alternative to abortion, which is the demoncrats’ holy sacrament.

[Agamemnon]

Could it be it was the threat of audit of John Roberts on account of his own adopted children that caused the vote switch in favor of Obamacare .... FReegards!