I had to explain what an extension is to an IRS agent. I want to get out if tax.

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You remind me a comment I read before that you have bachelor’s, master’s degree or CPA but you have to deal with someone front line from IRS who may just have their high school diploma….

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Try explaining a net working capital adjustment and balance sheet liquidation to a newbie agent. My agent is expecting to see unique checks paid for each item adjusted from the NWC. I’m at 20k of WIP on this audit and the client is basically paying for me to teach this guy transaction tax.

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Oh lord

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Another bad one on this is having to explain timely filing a return after a rejection to states. The person I spoke to in Texas had no idea what I was talking about and refused to believe the link I sent from their own website.

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I had an IRS rep tell me that I needed to file an extension for a gift tax return. I told them that there was no gift tax due and we filed a 4868 for the client's 1040. She was adamant that the 4868 was for individuals and that we were going to get a late filing penalty for the gift tax return.

I basically have her a cool story, bro, and hung up.

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We just received a notice last week about that! I told them the same thing. Then read the instructions out loud and they finally agreed. After wasting 4 hours of my time. Which just a week away from 10/17 felt like lost an entire day.

I had to explain a widespread issue the IRS created (applying payments to spouses and sending out bills with penalties as if it was unpaid) and I got hung up on as if that was a complicated issue 🤦

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What’s an extension?

That’s not what you told me when you called me…
Best,
Your IRS agent

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And now they'll have thousands more - and armed. Ugh

Really? We’re all fighting each other tooth and nail over talent right now, you think the IRS will be able to actually find 500 agents, let alone thousands?

I was put on hold once for almost a full hour… but they messed up trying to put me on hold so I sat there and listened the group of irs employees dick off their last hour of work. When she finally realized, she just hung the phone up on me.

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