What is the taxpayer advocate?
Advocate Advocate Service (TAS) is an independent office within the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Its purpose is to help US taxpayers solve tax problems with IRS. It provides its services to taxpayers for free. Businesses and individual taxpayers are entitled to services. Tas reports directly to the US Congress through a national taxpayer advocate.
Tas provides assistance with certain types of tax problems. Typical problems to help solve are the problems with taxpayers who do not receive compensation, disputes concerning notifications, IRS inability to respond to the taxpayer's questions, and emergency questions that can cause considerable taxpayer problems. The attorney will help with these problems if the taxpayer has not been able to solve the situation resolved by the common IRS process. The taxpayer must prove that he has made efforts in good faith to solve the IRS problem without success before it enters.
To qualifyThe taxpayer advocate must usually fill in the IRS 911, which is an application for an order to help taxpayers. This form requires basic information about taxpayers such as name, address, social security number and contact information. The taxpayer must also provide an explanation of the problem with the IRS, the problems it creates, and the relief he is looking for. The signing of the form allows the taxpayer to contact the taxpayer of the taxpayer's advocate to contact a third party in connection with the application.
After receiving the IRS 911 form, it determines whether there is significant problems. It also determines what steps he can take to alleviate suffering. Under certain circumstances, the taxpayer advocate may have an IRS suspended coercive measures in reviewing the taxpayer's situation. If the taxpayer qualifies on the pomOC, the taxpayer's advocate is assigned by the taxpayer advocate.
Tas will not help with all problems. For example, if the case of the taxpayer is in the IRS criminal investigation division, it does not interfere. He usually also rejects the cases for which the IRS has determined the taxpayer as a tax protester who simply refuses to pay taxes on the basis of constitutional claims. In case of doubts about whether a taxpayer advocate will help with a specific problem, the taxpayer should apply to make sure that he is not entitled to assistance. The taxpayer has nothing to lose by trying to get help from the office.