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Worst things to do on receiving an IRS notice

October 01, 2008

There are a lot of wrong ways to handle an IRS notice, and Peter Pappas summarizes five of them in a guest post at the taxguy blog. Number 3 comes up surprisingly often:

3. Blame Everyone Else – I’m not sure if this one isn’t a chicken or egg problem. In other words, did the tax problem cause the taxpayer to blame everyone else, or did his blaming everyone else (i.e. not taking responsibility) cause the tax problem? Either way, the blaming does two things and both of them suck: 1) it causes the blamer not to take action himself to resolve the problem (after all, if it’s other peoples’ fault, he can’t do anything about it); and 2) it alienates the taxpayer from the people he needs the most.

Bruce, the taxguy proprietor, has asked me to guest-post. I may, if the week gets a bit less crazy.

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