Will You Need a Taxpayer Advocate (TA) for IRS help?

Prayer method. Hope. Sometimes it’s what carries us through tax season. I hope that people will not need IRS help to navigate a tax fiasco that some taxpayers experience. If you need IRS help, there is an agency within the IRS that is designed to help and protect you.

All taxpayers have rights. You can read the Taxpayer Bill of Rights on the IRS website.

If the process of receiving your refund becomes a problem with the IRS and you need help beyond the people answering the phones at the IRS, you might need to contact your local IRS Taxpayer Advocate.  Theses folks act as a voice for taxpayers to ensure we understand our rights and we are treated fairly.

It’s a free service of highly qualified and knowledgable tax professionals when you need a third party on your side. The taxpayer advocates work closely with IRS and if you are facing serious financial hardship as a result of repeated unsuccessful attempts to resolve directly with the IRS, the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) recommends that you reach out to them.

They can give you IRS help when you have a hardship.

They encourage people to call. The worst thing you can do is to do nothing when you need help. Taxpayer Advocates have helped a lot of people when tracking refunds becomes a tumultuous process.

Their claim is to stick by your side to get to the bottom of tax cases. You will need to go through a verification process to to show you truly have a hardship. Our experience is that the IRS Tax Advocates have been able to help people. They are happy with with results yielded from getting the help of a taxpayer advocate.

Resources For You:

  • An IRS publication tells you how to contact an advocate or you can lookup contact info at the IRS website. You can also look for a local tax advocate online with the state lookup tool.
  • The hotline number for TAS questions is 1-877-777-4778 and to find the local office closest you.
  • You can also request a taxpayer advocate by filing IRS Form 911.
  • The IRS website to get more info is here: IRS Advocate link
  • Click on this brochure link to read more about the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS).  Most of the state level TAS offices are listed at then end of the brochure document.
  • This TAS website link also has a wealth of info for you to browse as well.

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