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Hello!
So many of us are stuck on processing, hace received notices, or are just sitting with a 570 code.
Have any of you reached out to a Tax Advocate, and if you have, what has your experience and outcome been?
Thank you for sharing.
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What do you consider a hardship, because hardship should be defined as being deprived of the normal basic necessities? The nerve of tax advocates telling people to go to charities and a church pantry for food when the IRS is holding up your money. I think they mainly consider evictions and utility disconnections and that’s why they will tell people to go to other places for those necessities. It’s one thing to discriminate against what’s considered, but another thing to have no real results or action plan to stop hardships.
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What do you guys think about making the IRS pay penalties and fees as a form of restitution to impacted tax payers for not expediting the processing time for hardship cases? I think the pay now review later rule should apply, because they are the IRS and will still be able to get their money if the money doesn’t come out right in the end. The pay now review later helps to relieve tax payers of their hardship. So they should immediately release funds under a hardship criteria.
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We have to get rid of the 5 day wait just to get an advocate. The ability to apply for an advocate should be online and via phone. I don’t like the gate process of having to go through the red tape just to get a transfer code in order to speak to someone just to get a referral. Too much time expires which subjects the person to the hardships that they are trying to avoid.
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I honestly believe that people impacted by the IRS should contact Congress, because the more people start raising the issue the more Congress will seek to make changes. I mean can you imagine if this happened next year. Who can say what their situation will be next year and we all need to be able to depend on the ability to expedite hardship cases. Why can’t they take a faxed 1040x as well, to expedite the processing time. It seems like a lack of consideration for hardships.
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ValerieOK don’t trust that, because in the time waiting to get a tax advocate I was coming closer to having a disconnection and I had it faxed before the advocate called. The advocate called on the day that the disconnection was set to happen and told me straight up they couldn’t do anything about it.
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Thanks DeeDeeLTL
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I called my local TA today and had to leave a message and now have to wait 7-10 days for them to call me back
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I don’t know how many people advocates can advocate for all at one time, but knowing that number is interesting. If they have too many people it’s impossible to give each case the attention that it deserves. There should be a direct dial into there desk and not waiting on the line to be called back in 2 days
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Doesn’t feel like what an advocate should be. Failing to give updates even if no update is available. Unreliable the phone number mine gave me doesn’t even work. I have to call into the main number and wait 1 to 2 business days for mine to contact me back. They need to reform this whole process to make if work better for tax payers.
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