Step 7 in the IRS Process and You're Dead
Author: RockinJay
The following represents the steps a tax form takes at the IRS office.
Step 1. Mail enters the IRS mail room and gets gennerally sorted by mail room employees.
Step 2. Mail gets opened by other employees who then sort the forms onto a cart and run the cart up an asile of specially made desks which have an assortment of cubby holes - open in the back. The employee quickly shoves the different taxpayers' forms into the back of the all desks' cubby holes so that the people seated at the desks can access them and package them for data entry.
Step 3. Data Entry: More trained employees sit at an IRS terminal simply entering in the exact taxform items, line by line.
Step 4.The IRS computer decides quickly whether or not it will accept the taxform. If so, the form is processed by the computer to go out the door and a check is printed for the taxpayer (best case scenerio).
Step 5. The IRS computer decides the taxform contains errors. The form is sent to the "Error and Corrections" department where more employees are in front of IRS terminals trying to determin "what's wrong with this tax form?"
Step 6. The taxform my simply have an entry on a wrong line. The trained operator of the terminal quickly corrects the error, the IRS computer likes what it sees and the tax form is sent to outbound processing so that a check is THEN printed and sent to the taxpayer (again BEST CASE Senerio, obviously).
Step 6a. The error is in the taxpayer's math. Could very well be that a "Schedule C" or some other supporting form is missing. A letter is then generated by the computer requesting the missing schedule, the taxpayer complys within a certain deadline, the missing form's data is entered, the computer accepts the complete 1040 and a check is then generated and sent.
Step 6b. The bottom line on the 1040 tax form adds up in the NEGATIVE for the taxpayer. The tax form is then accepted by the IRS computer and no further schedules nor supporting documents are allowed.
Step 7. The tax form is sent to the IRS department of accountents and legal staff. It is reviewed for accuracy and action is taken to notify the taxpayer of the deficit.
Step 8. After a deadline is exceeded by the taxpayer, the IRS takes legal action and the taxpayer must then pay with something, like cash, property, garnishment or jail time (worst case scenerio).
Step 9. Breaktime at the IRS, everyone gets 20 minutes.
Step 10. It's back to work.
In Step 6b above the error is due because the taxpayer simply did not know that the proper assortment of forms was needed to make the IRS computer happy. The computer at the IRS is the one you must keep happy. The folks on the inside are more interested in Step 9 (break time) then the individual taxpayer, YOU. The tax laws are written such that you have many chances to deflect attention to your bottom line. With all the supporting forms in place (they don't want to see all your receipts, it's an honor system here) a knowledgable tax filer can get away with murder, so to speak. Don't be freightened by the people in the IRS, befriend the IRS computer and you won't have {tax debt| IRS debt }.
Union Consulting, each year, saves troubled taxpayers and corporations, hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Errors in tax forms widely come from CPA's who've been hired to file the taxes when they themselves don't have the proper knowledge of how to "buddy up" to the IRS Computer.
Moral: The IRS is like Robin Hood. It robs from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.
Step 1. Mail enters the IRS mail room and gets gennerally sorted by mail room employees.
Step 2. Mail gets opened by other employees who then sort the forms onto a cart and run the cart up an asile of specially made desks which have an assortment of cubby holes - open in the back. The employee quickly shoves the different taxpayers' forms into the back of the all desks' cubby holes so that the people seated at the desks can access them and package them for data entry.
Step 3. Data Entry: More trained employees sit at an IRS terminal simply entering in the exact taxform items, line by line.
Step 4.The IRS computer decides quickly whether or not it will accept the taxform. If so, the form is processed by the computer to go out the door and a check is printed for the taxpayer (best case scenerio).
Step 5. The IRS computer decides the taxform contains errors. The form is sent to the "Error and Corrections" department where more employees are in front of IRS terminals trying to determin "what's wrong with this tax form?"
Step 6. The taxform my simply have an entry on a wrong line. The trained operator of the terminal quickly corrects the error, the IRS computer likes what it sees and the tax form is sent to outbound processing so that a check is THEN printed and sent to the taxpayer (again BEST CASE Senerio, obviously).
Step 6a. The error is in the taxpayer's math. Could very well be that a "Schedule C" or some other supporting form is missing. A letter is then generated by the computer requesting the missing schedule, the taxpayer complys within a certain deadline, the missing form's data is entered, the computer accepts the complete 1040 and a check is then generated and sent.
Step 6b. The bottom line on the 1040 tax form adds up in the NEGATIVE for the taxpayer. The tax form is then accepted by the IRS computer and no further schedules nor supporting documents are allowed.
Step 7. The tax form is sent to the IRS department of accountents and legal staff. It is reviewed for accuracy and action is taken to notify the taxpayer of the deficit.
Step 8. After a deadline is exceeded by the taxpayer, the IRS takes legal action and the taxpayer must then pay with something, like cash, property, garnishment or jail time (worst case scenerio).
Step 9. Breaktime at the IRS, everyone gets 20 minutes.
Step 10. It's back to work.
In Step 6b above the error is due because the taxpayer simply did not know that the proper assortment of forms was needed to make the IRS computer happy. The computer at the IRS is the one you must keep happy. The folks on the inside are more interested in Step 9 (break time) then the individual taxpayer, YOU. The tax laws are written such that you have many chances to deflect attention to your bottom line. With all the supporting forms in place (they don't want to see all your receipts, it's an honor system here) a knowledgable tax filer can get away with murder, so to speak. Don't be freightened by the people in the IRS, befriend the IRS computer and you won't have {tax debt| IRS debt }.
Union Consulting, each year, saves troubled taxpayers and corporations, hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue. Errors in tax forms widely come from CPA's who've been hired to file the taxes when they themselves don't have the proper knowledge of how to "buddy up" to the IRS Computer.
Moral: The IRS is like Robin Hood. It robs from the ignorant and gives to the well informed.
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