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IRS Threatens Coloradans Who Already Paid Taxes: ‘They’re Frightened And They Don’t Understand’
CBS4 ^ | February 5, 2021 | Brian Maass

Posted on 02/06/2021 9:47:13 AM PST by george76

Accountants along Colorado’s Front Range are telling CBS4 that dozens of clients who paid their 2019 taxes are nonetheless getting menacing letters from the IRS. Those letters are threatening late fees, penalties and in some cases, property seizure.

“Well they’re frightened,” said Denver CPA William Fraser, “They don’t understand why the government, the IRS, would be chasing after them when they’ve paid their taxes.”

Fraser said he has about 30 clients who paid their 2019 taxes but are still getting the intimidating letters from the feds. He says his clients are “frightened, angry, stressed, worried because the letters say they’re going to come take their assets.”

Tom Conradt, a Denver tax attorney, estimates “easily 50 of our clients made payments but were not credited. They’re freaked out and very scared.”

The problem appears to partly be a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic but also partly due to ongoing issues with the IRS like archaic computer systems, slashed budgets and understaffing that are now causing consequences for taxpayers.

When the pandemic took hold in 2020, the IRS sent nearly 60,000 employees home to work and more than 500 IRS offices were shut down. The remote workforce meant lots of mail that didn’t get opened in a timely manner and a gap in customer service as phone calls from the public were not answered.

As of late last year, there were approximately one million unprocessed tax returns from 2019 and three million pieces of unopened mail. Paper tax returns and letters from taxpayers sat unopened in trucks in post office parking lots for months while IRS offices were closed down.

“It’s a giant backlog,” said Conradt, “Systemic exacerbated by COVID. They are so incredibly backlogged,” observed the Denver tax attorney.

He said there is a “giant disconnect” with payments sent in and being cashed by the IRS, but not being processed and automated delinquent notices are being sent out.

“This is a massive, massive problem that’s going to take some time to fix,” said Conradt.

Another Colorado CPA said he, too, has dozens of clients who paid their taxes but are receiving delinquency notices.

“When IRS received checks they got cashed immediately, however they have not posted the payments to taxpayers accounts. Therefore, the computers do not have the credits and automatically begin sending out delinquency notices.”

Raphael Tulino, an IRS spokesperson, told CBS4 the pandemic “put us behind the 8 ball.” He said the agency is asking for patience.

“IRS is committed to working with taxpayers as we navigate tax administration in and through a COVID environment,” said Tulino. “Although there are still some limited service delays and timing issues, if you get a letter or notice from IRS please respond to it and consider IRS is flexible and will work with you based on your complete set of facts and circumstances.”

Fraser said he is telling clients to relax..

“They will get around to this, they will get it fixed,” he said. “They will get your account straightened out, they will remove the interest and penalties.”

But he cautioned it may take the IRS six months or more to get things worked out.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colorado; covid; irs; tax; taxes; taxpayers
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To: george76

I am getting money back this year. I need to adjust my withholding


41 posted on 02/06/2021 12:29:59 PM PST by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: george76

Work from home? They don’t work when they are in the office and they sure aren’t going to work from home.

As for sorting it out? Bull. They have never not been in a mess or a constant royal cluster fluck.


42 posted on 02/06/2021 1:33:26 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (I have a burning hatred of anyone who would vote for a demented, pedophile, crook and a commie whore)
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To: McGavin999

But you can bet they all got paid


43 posted on 02/06/2021 1:42:16 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: george76

Well that is not the whole story. If the IRS thinks you owe them 65k or more they pull your passport and you cannot leave the country.


44 posted on 02/06/2021 2:40:01 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: george76

GD government slackers! As if answering the phone and opening mail is harder just because you’re at home! I’ve noticed the postal system is screwed up too, I got one bill from my CC company in the mail 3 DAYS after it was due!


45 posted on 02/06/2021 3:24:39 PM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: Bonemaker

I got my refund from my March filed return about 3 weeks ago.


46 posted on 02/06/2021 3:31:40 PM PST by CraigEsq
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To: CraigEsq

Paper filing?


47 posted on 02/06/2021 3:32:29 PM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: nesnah

“Paper filing?”

Yeah, amended. Realized I goofed on something about 5 minutes after I submitted my initial return. Stupid turbotax buried something that should have been obvious lol.


48 posted on 02/06/2021 4:10:29 PM PST by CraigEsq
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To: george76

I’ve been waiting about 19 years to get an answer to a simple question I asked the IRS. Don’t think it is my responsibility to follow up.


49 posted on 02/06/2021 4:27:31 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: Savage Rider

Years ago I did my taxes myself. A few weeks later I received a letter from the IRS. It stated that I calculated my taxes wrong and my final number was incorrect. The letter stated that instead of the amount I claimed, it was another number. Theirs ended up being the exact same amount I claimed to the penny. All I could say was “Okay.”


50 posted on 02/06/2021 4:37:34 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: CraigEsq

You are lucky...I owed the bastards.


51 posted on 02/06/2021 5:04:06 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: george76

I have been hassling with the IRS for 2 months. The short story—they claimed that I didn’t file my 2019 taxes. But they sure as hell cashed my check in April of last year.


52 posted on 02/06/2021 6:35:02 PM PST by Lysandru
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

Puppet Biden is the USA frontman for The Great Reset. Everyone really does need to pay attention to these freaks of Hell and what they are planning. See Davos. The motto is “You won’t own anything and you’ll be happy.” They do fully intend to eliminate ALL personal property except your underwear. Own your home? No, you don’t. Thought you have an IRA/401K? No, you don’t. You won’t own anything. You will live where they allow you to live. You will thank them for your life and your daily bowl of gruel. Doctor Zhivago or Gulag Archipelago are going to look like picnics compared to what is coming.

Christians are blessed because they believe the 2,000 year old prophecies about this final global tyranny. What is happening in the USA is not merely a Communist infiltration and takedown - it is the implementation of the Antichrist Kingdom. The USA has so far been the military arm of that kingdom, murdering everyone planet-wide in order to secure a connected central bank in every nation. See Smedley Butler, he figured it out. In 2000, there were 7 nations not in the IMF-BIS. Today there are only 1 or 2, Iran and North Korea, “your enemies.”

That’s your country, bombing everyone into “democracy”, that same “our democracy” that the talking hairdos on Telavivavision and the political pigs keep crying is threatened by you, the new “domestic terrorists”.

Long read, published 2007; and fyi Cuba, Libya and Sudan have capitulated to the Bankers, maybe also Iran.

https://rense.com/general75/wrus.htm

“Who Runs The World And
Controls The Value Of Assets?
By Joan Veon
1-29-2007

“Today, after the conversion of IRAQ to the Banklords, only five countries in the world are without a central bank: Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Cuba and Libya . All of these just happen to be on George Bush’s “Axis of Evil” list. ...”


53 posted on 02/06/2021 7:37:36 PM PST by guthunde47
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To: Lysandru

Meanwhile the crooks like pelosi and obama and the clintons have many many millions they cannot explain. No audit or even a letter for them.


54 posted on 02/06/2021 8:43:53 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: dinodino
It’s not just Colorado. This happened to me—the IRS cashed a check in December but didn’t credit it until the beginning of this month.

I'm in Texas and I've had IRS issues the past several years. They told me in 2018/19 that I never filed my 2015 taxes. Sent in a copy of my 1040/SchedC, and a picture of my bank statement showing they cashed the check years before... They somehow rekajiggered my 2017 taxes in 2020 to claim I owed $300 for that year. Then they decided I overpaid $330 the year before in 2016, so I got a $30 refund check. Had issues with the stimulus refunds, IRS processing my taxes taking half a year, and another issue or two I don't remember exactly off the top of my head. It's really annoying. I think they still show a payment but no paperwork for 2014? or something, but the guy I talked to (at the IRS) said it's not an issue unless the IRS decides to do something, so don't worry about it...

And note they never give you an explanation for why they change it, they just send you a notice saying you owe more and here the interest/fees. No way to tell if their changes are correct or not, because I know my original filing should have been correct.
55 posted on 02/07/2021 8:24:10 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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