Originally Posted by
Probe
The IRS does not do email. Period. If you get an email, it is a phishing scam. That is the good news. The bad news is the IRS does not do email. Everything is snail mail. For me, I have a mail forwarding service. I pay all bills online, so sometimes I don't get mail for 3+ months.
The other thing I learned, is you are not dealing with the IRS. You are dealing with somebody that works for the IRS. They have different agendas, and different levels of knowledge and experience.
The worst I heard, the guy was a di@k. They had to go to a meeting with their accountant with the the IRS. My first, the guy was friendly, scary knowledgeable (pilot stuff), and professional. Handled with a couple of mailings and phone calls. My current one is the second worst I have heard of. I am dealing with the village idiot at the wrong division of the IRS (ss-8). She dragged it out so long, I had to petition for the tax court. Now I am dealing with the IRS's lawyer, on her first case, I believe. The sister of the village idiot. I will win, even if I have to go to tax court. But it is still a pain in the a$$.
And I did everything correct, and above board. I owe nothing, legally.
What a pain. I wonder how it works for people who have renounced their citizenship and the IRS decides to take a look at the filings from the period prior to the renunciation. I am not there yet, but I am considering it. I have been in Europe long enough and have zero plans on returning to the States to live. Due to the tax issue and now the banking and investment issues caused by FATCA, holding on the blue passport does not seem to make any logical sense.