Irs news

[Black Bart]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/19/irs-chief-warns-refund-delays-over-budget-cuts/

I can live with slow refunds, but hope a shutdown doesn't come to pass.

[ATSMAN]

This is old news!

[Black Bart]

Well, You're right.

This is old news!

It was dated December 19th. I extend my apologies to you and any other offended parties.

[ATSMAN]

It was dated December 19th. I extend my apologies to you and any other offended parties.

No apology needed. Just wanted to make sure you knew that it was stale news.

I am still not convinced that the refund delay will be worse than last tax season. But I will be warning my clients to be patient!

[Bees Knees]

I am still not convinced that the refund delay will be worse than last tax season. But I will be warning my clients to be patient!

Oh, I think we are in for big troubles this year trying to get IRS to do anything if it isn't a standard e-filed return.

I have a partnership that is always late filing their return. The individual partners file their return on time because the extension deadline is October 15th, but with the partnership extended deadline now September 15th, they are always late. I have a standard form that gets their late filing penalty abated under Rev. Proc. 84-35., which ALWAYS gets them out of the penalty.

For some reason, IRS apparently is not rubber stamping penalty relief this year. Three correspondences later, the IRS still does not acknowledge my client doesn't owe the penalty.

All I can figure is with all the layoffs, whoever is left at IRS is way over-worked and doesn't have time to actually read any correspondence they get in the mail.

[Black Bart]

...Just wanted to make sure you knew that it was stale news...

So noted and confirmed.