NTA Blog 12/22/2017 Miscellaneous Tax Return Preparer Issues as We Head into the 2018 Filing Season As the 2018 filing season approaches, we thought it would be a good time to review where we stand on...
NTA Blog 12/13/2017 Recent Court Decision Highlights the Impact of the Lack of Pre-payment Judicial ... This time of the year, I review and edit drafts of the ten most litigated issues in federal courts.
NTA Blog 12/8/2017 LITC Program Office’s Latest Report Details Tireless Work of Those Giving Voic... This week, 219 people from 134 Low Income Taxpayer Clinics (LITCs) are gathering in Washington, D.C.
NTA Blog 11/30/2017 Taxpayer Assistance Center Service Continues to Decline, Impairing Taxpayers’ ... The other day, I came across an interesting item in the news.
NTA Blog 11/22/2017 Thanksgiving wishes from the National Taxpayer Advocate As we all pause to give thanks at the beginning of this holiday season, I’d like to share with you...
Success Stories 11/20/2017 TAS Advocates for Release of Levy due to Hardship TAS received an inquiry from a local congressional office for a taxpayer whose bank account had been...
Success Stories 11/18/2017 TAS Helps Taxpayer Get Amended Returns Processed A taxpayer came to TAS because he owed taxes on his 2011 original tax return, but had filed amended ...
NTA Blog 11/15/2017 Caring about “Sharing” – The IRS Should Do More for Participants in the Gi... In this blog post, I will discuss how the IRS has been dealing with a growing sector of our economy.
NTA Blog 11/1/2017 Appeals Should Accept Good-Faith Requests to Review Section 6702 Penalty Abateme... Appeals Is Needlessly Turning Away Even Good-Faith Taxpayers Who Seek Administrative Review of Rejec...
NTA Blog 10/25/2017 IRS Should Identify Potentially Frivolous Positions in the Letters It Mails to T... In the early 1980s, Congress became concerned with the rapid growth of deliberate defiance of the ta...