Face to face with IRS agents: Who’s who?

If you find yourself in an IRS pickle, there are three IRS employees you are most likely to come face to face with.  Those are Revenue Officers, Revenue Agents and Special Agents.  Here is what to expect from each:
An IRS Revenue Officer is in collection enforcement. Often, the first contact you will receive from a [...]

IRS is hiring auditors and collection agents – enforcement to increase

The IRS is hiring revenue agents (auditors), revenue officers (collectors), and special agents (criminal investigators).  This has been made public by the IRS, but I attended a joint conference with the IRS last week in which every IRS panelist – from IRS auditor managers to taxpayer advocates to senior IRS attorneys – confirmed the trend [...]

What an IRS criminal investigation for tax fraud looks like

With tax season in full bloom, a little reminder to avoid making false or fraudulent claims on your tax return is in order.   
If you want to see what a criminal tax case looks like, the IRS makes it easy – here are the fact patterns and sentencing results of over 50 criminal tax cases [...]

Go back six years to get current on unfiled returns.

In most cases, the IRS will require the past six years of unfiled tax returns for an account to be considered current.  This is a written directive of the IRS, found in IRS Policy Statement 5-133, “Delinquent Returns – Enforcement of Filing Requirements”.  
If the unfiled returns have a balance due, the amount you owe will double [...]

IRS employee charged with improper access to taxpayer files

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Kentucky has issued a release detailing that an IRS employee at the Covington, Kentucky, IRS Service Center has been charged and arrested with improperly accessing the accounts of taxpayers.
It is alleged that the employee, John Snyder of Cincinnati, who worked in a business return function, accessed [...]