1. Tips On Surviving A Tax Audit - Tax Office Uk
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By Jasn Kone - http://www.tax-contact-number.co.uk
I had just left our Scarsdale, N.Y., headquarters on a business trip a couple of years ago when an Internal
Revenue Service collections officer named Celeste Green stormed in, tax office UK phone number
waving a "Notice of Intent to Levy" and demanding that we pay the IRS $25,000 by the end of that
month.
Since I was not present, Green directed her brusque comments to our perplexed receptionist, who knew
nothing about our business taxes, and to our equally perplexed administrative manager, Pascale
Bocchino, who did. Pascale keeps our books and has worked out many snafus involving payroll, property
and sales taxes over the years. We are diligent about complying with the tax laws - we are in the

2. business, after all - and problems typically involve paperwork that was mishandled, most of the time on
the government's end.
But Green was not the sort of helpful customer service agent Pascale usually deals with. A collections
officer gets involved only after the IRS has repeatedly tried to get a taxpayer to remit money that the
government believes it is owed but which the taxpayer has neither paid nor properly challenged. We, on
the other hand, had no idea that the IRS thought it had a problem with us. Green offered no
documentation for why we supposedly owed all that money, and she was not particularly helpful when
Pascale asked.
After some stonewalling, she told Pascale that a recent income tax deposit of $268 (representing
withholding taxes for an employee's maternity leave disability pay) was not timely because it was paid
by check rather than electronically. That, said Green, resulted in penalties that brought the bill to
$25,000. She told Pascale to pay up. Pascale told Green we would get back to her.
After talking to me, Pascale turned the problem over to Rebecca Pavese, who manages our firmwide tax
practice from our Atlanta office and who had, coincidentally, just wrapped up an unrelated audit of one
of my personal returns. Rebecca and I both knew that, though some of our tax laws are pretty strange,
nobody ends up owing $25,000 because he or she makes a $268 payment by check.

3. Rebecca got to the root of the problem the next day. A few months earlier, the IRS processing center in
Cincinnati had failed to enter data from our quarterly payroll tax return showing the various dates on
which we had paid our employees. The data demonstrated that all of our withholding taxes were paid
on time, but since it was missing, the IRS computers concluded that our payments were late. The
processing center should have sent several letters alerting us to the problem. We never received any.
Eventually, the computers referred the matter to collections.
An IRS customer service representative in Cincinnati canceled the liability as soon as Rebecca
resubmitted the information. Rebecca notified Green, the collections officer.Green was furious that
Rebecca had contacted the processing center, which no longer had authority over the matter. The
collections officer said she knew all along what the problem was. Then she reversed the IRS
representative's adjustment and put our nonexistent liability back on the books.
So… What’s Next ?
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