Posted on 10/27/2016 7:13:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sounds more like the feds are having a turf war with these people moving in on their action.
These ass hats scared my wife half to death. I called them back and told them I would hunt them down if they ever called again. They stopped.
I’ve been doing that with many unsolicited calls stopping just short of making it a threat to do harm.
From the IRS webpage:
Phone Scams Continue to be a Serious Threat, Remain on IRS “Dirty Dozen” List of Tax Scams for the 2016 Filing Season
“If you don’t owe taxes, or have no reason to think that you do:
Do not give out any information. Hang up immediately.
Contact TIGTA to report the call. Use their “IRS Impersonation Scam Reporting” web page. You can also call 800-366-4484.
Report it to the Federal Trade Commission. Use the “FTC Complaint Assistant” on FTC.gov. Please add “IRS Telephone Scam” in the notes.
If you know you owe, or think you may owe tax:
Call the IRS at 800-829-1040. IRS workers can help you.
Stay alert to scams that use the IRS as a lure. Tax scams can happen any time of year, not just at tax time. For more, visit “Tax Scams and Consumer Alerts” on IRS.gov.”
When they called it was on our store phone and I told them so and they should call my wife any how since she handles these matters I told them the number to reach her at is eight, six, seven, five, three, zero, nine and ask for Jenny.
I told them once that I am from the FBI and started to ask him questions.
They hung up on me.
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The IRS never says they are the “IRS”, they say they are the Internal Revenue Service.
Some other articles about this have said that the IRS does not call people at all. They send letters.
Now if they would just go after the Department of US Grants and the Microsoft Tech Support call centers. I like when the fake Microsoft people call me and tell me they noticed a virus on my computer. I start playing with them. They need to be more informed on the tech they are claiming has a virus. One time I played too hard and the guy told me he was going to put a bullet in between my eyes. He sounded from India.
Wonderful - Just saw today a strip mall near me has a new business going in with sign they are hiring call center people. I thought it odd in a strip mall since they are usually in office buildings - probably one not on the up and up either.
I so wanted to do a sting on these vultures but a local cop said the jurisdiction was so muddled as to make it next to impossible to do the investigation. That the elderly were most susceptible was a crying shame. I hope they eviscerate those scammers.
That is absolutely correct. The IRS does not call - they send letters about your taxes.
Good one.
sounding dumb, if you’ve figured your taxes that you know what you owe, on what basis do you file for extensions?
You can get an automatic extension for 6 months to file your taxes, without needing to provide any reason at all, as long as you pay what you owe by the usual filing time. The extra time to file can sometimes be useful for less than perfectly organized people who need extra time for the paperwork. Also even if you have computed roughly what you will owe, if your taxes are even a little complex, having extra time may allow you to further investigate questions that come up the first time through, for instance to find out if you are actually qualified for additional deductions.
The surprising thing with the 800 callback number is that it’s only good for a day or two. Come back from a trip, go through your messages, decide to have a bit of fun and get some righteous profanity out of your system, and they’ve already changed it.
The second crime here is how easy it is to spoof Caller ID. Shut that down and that would be the end of a lot of this.
I once worked for a company that went out of business – the owner suddenly shut the doors without notice and absconded to parts unknown with all the company assets including our final two pays and I didn’t receive a W-2 from them. Once I realized I wasn’t going to get one, I worked with a family friend who had worked for the IRS and he helped me complete a substitute W-2 based on copies of my pay stubs which fortunately I kept, but it took a while and I filed an extension while things were sorted out.
But even with an extension to file, you still have to pay at least what you estimate is any additional taxes you owe, if any, by April 15th. If you don’t owe any additional taxes, you’re good or if you have overpaid, you still get a refund. If you underestimated the amount owed, and when you finally file you still owe additional taxes, you could still be subject to an underpayment penalty and interest but it would be much less than if you hadn’t paid anything on April 15th and with an extension are not subject to a late filing penalty, and in some cases you can get the IRS to waive the penalty and interest if there is a compelling reason, the additional amount owed is not a lot and you pay any additional taxes when you file.
When I received one of the very early calls over a year ago, I had some tax complexities that had me very concerned. Contacted a tax attorney and he called them back, finally asking where they were located (they were using a phone number that was in the area of a major IRS center). The group that called was very “good” but while he called and I was checking further we both determined it was a scam.
Hanging would be too good for the pain they have caused people.
We got calls too - I told them to send an official letter to my address and the gal actually asked me what my address was - I told her to look it up.
So how did your dad come out on that? With penalties and interest, he probably ended up paying a whole heck of a lot more than he would have paid had he filed and paid on time. I sure hope he wasn’t advising his clients to do the same. And no offense to you or your father but I’ve dealt with some CPA’s (and some attorneys too) that were, how shall I say - their degree wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.
I only had to do that once. One year, between my wife and myself, we under withheld and didn't have the moola come April. By the time the third angry letter came, I had the money though.
Again, even if you didn’t have all the money to pay what was owed by April 15th, even paying part of it would have reduce the penalty and interested owed. In some cases, paying the IRS via a credit card or via a home equity loan or LOC, depending on the interest rate, can end up being less expensive than paying the IRS penalties and interest.
As long as you file on time, they won't hit you with a penalty. They will charge you with interest until you pay.
No. You are wrong. If you file on time or request an extension, you will not be assessed a late filing penalty but if you owe taxes and do not pay by April 15th, you may be subject to both a late payment penalty if you did not pay at least 90% of what was owed, along with interest.
https://www.irs.gov/uac/extensions-and-payment-options
https://www.irs.gov/uac/newsroom/eight-facts-on-late-filing-and-late-payment-penalties
Amen. Too bad the LEO’s didn’t go in hot and heavily armed, and detect some minor “resistance”. I would be angered and upset over that for about, oh, .0001 seconds.
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