Thread: Where can I complain about the IRS?

A close friend found out last year that someone had filed their taxes using her husband's social security number and had received a refund. It took 7 months and a ton of paperwork for the friend and her husband to get their own refund, even though they had done nothing wrong.
Fast forward to today. My friend just filed her taxes electronically, and guess what? Yep, once again the IRS paid out a refund to the other guy. Will this go on forever? Is there any oversight anywhere? How the heck did their file not get flagged?Who can we contact for action? thx!
To clarify - I am involved only as a sympathetic bystander looking for info to help my friend who is banging her head against the wall as we speak.
I guess I'm just incredulous that the IRS software wouldn't catch a name change for a long time filer when I can't even log into my Yahoo account if I mistype my name.

Thanks for all the helpful answers!

I'm not sure how long this will happen but the IRS don't really look at returns until after tax season and that's when they find all the problems. The person who's using your friend husband's SSN just file there taxes first and that's why he got the refund first. I hoping this will be the last year and the IRS will finally get this problem fix. I don't know who you can contact.

An attorney.

The IRS introduced a new identity theft unit. Call it.

http://www.irs.gov/privacy/article/0,,id=186436,00.html

If this had been in place, it would have required the IRS to manually review the tax return before issuing a refund.

File first and avoid the problem.
Otherwise, when rejected, file a paper return with a cover letter explaining the problem. Be prepared for it to take 4-18 weeks to get refund, unfortunately.
And your involvement is?????
Talk to Taxpayer Advocate.
IRS Identity Protection Specialized Unit, toll-free at 1-800-908-4490.

This is the IRS you're dealing with here. By even complaining to them you'll probably get audited forever.

www.fairtax.org

There's nothing that they can do but file a paper return and mail it in. The IRS has no way of knowing in advance who can claim whom on a tax return.

Since this does not involve you, there is absolutely NOTHING that YOU can do about it.

1800-829-1040
1800-908-4490

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19225200.html


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