Discussion:CP-2000 Puzzle

I faxed POA and revision of Schedule D to Atlanta; in March we received a duplicate notice so I faxed it again, this time making sure I printed a report showing the fax received. I noted in my transmittal that no additional tax was due, and requested that if the Service did not agree that they send the matter to the Appeals Office in Philly. Btw, accompanying that fax were the brokerage advices showing cost and selling price. My request was based on prior experience with the Atlanta center, where you practically have to hit them over the head to listen.

We have finally received a revised notice; despite the net Schedule D loss, they propose an assessment on the 3800. Is there something wrong in Atlanta? Or am I missing something here?

Sigh.

This year I have two in the works. I've got my fingers crossed. Good luck!

"Are there any 1099s that you don't know about?"

Generally responses faxed to Philadelphia (215) or Brookhaven (516) are cleared up in a matter of two months, but for the past three years, Atlanta has been the Bermuda Triangle of Service Centers. Items are faxed there never to reappear. I tried to Federal Express follow up information only to be told by Fedex that there is no place as Chamblee GA with the zip code on the correspondence. When I heard that for the first time, it confirmed my fears that the location was a drop box manufactured to produce Deficiency Notices.

To say that this area of Atlanta has a distinctive flair would be to put it mildly. It's Atlanta's Chinatown, or really Asia town; and also has a very large Latino community. Buses leave for Mexico on the hour, and it's not unheard of for people to hail a cab going in that direction. Many of our fellow Americans, and indeed their compatriots from the motherland, work in the area, and it's not unusual to hear Ebonics, Swahili, Zulu or various French and Carribean dialects spoken at the security gate on entrance to certain civic structures located hard by; where these decendants of Pharoah have found gainful employment in government work.

Then, there is a large airport directly abutting IRS complex on the North for the tony private jets and helicopters used by the oil and real estate speculators. Directly abutting that, again to the North is a very active rail line, and again to the North of that is the Marta mass transit rail. This adds the spice of noise to the mix: deafening noise. Map IRS is in the light gray area at the intersection of Chamblee Tucker and Buford Hwy. My understanding is that they are planning to close this entire facility, even though some buildings are brand new. True or not, I don't know.

This may be what Alvin Toffler had in mind with his series of Shock books, hehe. But, it can get right conflusing in that area. Good food though.

Andover will close Oct 2009

Never mail responses if you can help it. The mailed in responses go through anthrax checking,and are often lost. Fax 'em. However, the Chamblee fax number on the notices was down for about 9 months (or out of toner or something) so the faxes went into never-never land. WE got at least 5 alternate numbers after NOD after NOD started showing up because Chamblee never got our responses. After I had to go to tax court appeals with one idiotic schedule D NOD that resulted from this, I got an appeals officer who asked why the hell the case was in appeals. I explained about the black hole of Chamblee, and the dead fax machine, and the lost responses, and he was flabbergasted. I got a call back in a few days, and he told me that he told his superior who went up the ladder to the COMMISSIONER who called the head of Chamblee.....and that, if nothing else, at least the fax machine was now working. That was last summer, I think.

I love that AO.

On my case I spoke with the Hotline yesterday; they suggested sending a copy of the 2007 Schedule D (which was not completed for the last correspondence) to prove that there would be no harm, no foul.

Has anyone noticed how they ignore requests to send the case to appeals if they do not agree with the conclusion you reach?

The problem with 1040X comes when you have issues where IRS is totally wrong, or any change produces an additional tax of $10......if they do the work with the CP-2000, it will not be charged. I see so many where they ask where the royalties are on Schedule E for authors and the like, missing the same numbers on Sch C.

As I noted, there is such a difference between having your reply processed in Brookhaven or Philadelphia versus Atlanta [this is an East Coast perspective]