Posted on 08/03/2023 12:59:12 PM PDT by Red Badger
Sometimes the IRS needs to send taxpayers’ documents from one location to another. The documents don’t always get there.
An inspector general, in a new report Thursday, found hundreds of examples of the IRS losing taxpayers’ documents in shipments over nearly three years beginning in 2019.
Worse, the agency didn’t always notify the taxpayers that it lost their data, nor did it offer monitoring services to help the taxpayers recover from the breach, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said.
Sometimes the agency couldn’t even figure out whose information was lost, because the IRS’s record-keeping was so bad. Other times the agency concluded that the lost records related to a business, which the IRS decided presented a low risk and so they didn’t deserve identity protection and credit monitoring services.
“The IRS is not adhering to its own internal guidelines when sending large volumes of sensitive taxpayer information to and from its Tax Processing Centers,” the inspector general concluded.
The revelations come at a crucial time for the IRS, which has been facing intense attacks from Republicans who say the agency is unfair, intrusive and reckless.
GOP lawmakers are battling to claw back tens of billions of dollars that President Biden and the Democrat-led Congress pumped into the IRS in last year’s budget-climate legislation.
IRS officials are battling to keep the money. In their official reply to the inspector general, they said that cash will help them improve their systems and should help lessen the risk of losing taxpayers’ information in the mail.
Just before the inspector general’s new report went public, the IRS announced it would use some of the cash infusion to advance its “paperless processing” initiative. The goal, officials said, is to digitize more operations so the average taxpayer can conduct all business electronically
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Hey. Here they are. How’d they get in Biden’s Delaware garage?🤷♂️📁📁📁📁🗂️🗂️🗃️🗃️🗄️🗄️🗄️🗄️
The irs will not admit they lost your information. You will be at fault. They will hound you for the money. They’ll send one of the new 30,000 agents to your house to show you who’s really your boss.
Don’t believe the IG. The IRS threw away the return forms because they were behind in processing or because the forms were handwritten instead of computer created. For the last five years, I have gotten requests for my return to be filed, (under penalty). Three times they had removed the check and cashed it. Luckily I am not a trusting soul and had copies available, including the return and all forms, W-2s and 1099s and the envelope and checks.
The documents don’t always get there.
Some people don’t have tax records.
Joe and Hunter wink
Our population's IQ is decreasing. Work ethic declining. Corruption rising. Naturally, it's also impacted the IRS.
Is that code for giving everything to Chinese hackers?
WOW... Just WOW!
Per the article:
“Investigators recounted one lost package that contained a whistleblower case file.
Another lost package’s contents were so sensitive that it was redacted in the inspector general’s public report.”
They should be careful doing that. Some of them may get sent to hell.
Hundreds? What a joke. Thousands or tens of thousands is more like it.
A couple of tax seasons ago I received a letter from the IRS saying that I had forgotten one form on my tax return, a claim which was, in fact, correct. I had omitted it.
The omitted form which was required as “back up” to support one of the figures stated on the return. The figure was correct, I had simply failed to provide the form showing how I’d calculated it.
I promptly provided the missing form.
About two months later I got a threatening letter saying that I had never filed my return AT ALL.
After they had acknowledged receipt of my filing, reviewed it, and sent me a letter complaining that I had done an incomplete job.
Years ago, I started my own company. Before I made the first dime, the IRS sent me a letter claiming that I owed them $6,500. No reason given. I got out of that, but how about that, as soon as you start up a company, they are after your assets.
Your check is in the mail, trust us...
Didn’t loose mine....soft audit...they went back 7 yrs with me. I ended up paying $225 for a Turbo Tax error. Total bullsh*t
The IRS caught that mistake and called me on it. I acknowledged my error, and the rep corrected my tax return on the spot, over the phone. Apparently, it was a very common error on many tax returns due to some unclear wording on the form.
I still got a small refund for overpayment of taxes that year.
I was pleasantly surprised to never hear anything about it again. It seemed that the IRS still had some competent people and systems at the time.
Of course, your milage may vary, as they say.
I keep copies of forms, attachments, back-up documentation, as well as certified mail receipts, written notes with dates and names from phone conversations, etc.
Not only the feds, but for state tax, mortgages, loans, medical records, etc.
Every time I’ve had a problem it’s been their fault, but I still had to go to the time and expense to prove it. All the while they’re collecting a paycheck with no incentive to solve the problem.
Makes one wonder about mailed in voting ballots.
They don’t always lose them. Sometimes the person they are assigned to in Philadelphia might just store them under the floorboards of their workstation for a few years.
(Humm. They closed the Philadelphia IRS Service center for some reason....)
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