IRS won't be able to help you much this year

[riverbendviewgal]

And imagine with the ACA admissions to check and charge for not joining and FATCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IRS is not going to be very helpful to your questions. Nina Olsen , your tax advocate also wrote that FATCA is more harmful to the USA than it is a positive.

http://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/2013-Annual-Report/full-2013-annual-report-to-congress/

The national taxpayer advocate, the ombudswoman for the Internal Revenue Service, has released her annual report about the biggest issues facing the agency. One major concern that the advocate, Nina E. Olson, emphasized was declining customer service at the agency, driven by budget cuts.

How much has the service declined? Here’s a chart showing the share of taxpayers who called wanting to speak with a customer representative and actually spoke to one (blue line), and the wait before reaching a representative (green bars):


http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/charting-the-decline-in-service-at-the-i-r-s/?smid=tw-nytimeseconomix&seid=auto&_r=0

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. There's no line showing the competence of the representatives.

I called the IRS about 2 weeks ago. After the waiting period, I talked to a friendly representative. She put me on hold while researching the question I asked, then came back and gave me a couple of answers, like she was guessing.

I will pick one of those courses of action, but won't be surprised if it comes back to bite me.

By the chart, I was one of the lucky ones.