Discussion:IRS and Turbotax
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| {{ForumReplyPost|UserID=Kevinh5|Date=27 September 2009|Text=So now, Smokey, comes the ethical question: Will you tell your friend about the error and recommend that she amend her return? If she were a client I'm sure that you would follow Circular 230, but what are our responsibilities to non-clients who just ask for free advice?}} | {{ForumReplyPost|UserID=Kevinh5|Date=27 September 2009|Text=So now, Smokey, comes the ethical question: Will you tell your friend about the error and recommend that she amend her return? If she were a client I'm sure that you would follow Circular 230, but what are our responsibilities to non-clients who just ask for free advice?}} | ||
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| + | Actually, I did agonize over that very issue when I found the error, and decided that my best advice was that she come clean. | ||
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| + | So, at my suggestion she pointed out the error to the IRS in the letter she sent with her backup documents, literally requesting that they bill her for the additional taxes owed. | ||
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| + | At this point, with the No Change letter in hand, do you think we have to do anything else? | ||
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| 27 September 2009 | |
| Here's something I think you all will find extremely interesting.
My pal prepares her own tax return with Turbotax. She got audited for 2007 & I was giving her a hand in understanding what documents the IRS wanted, mainly relating to schedule A deductions. We discovered that there was a $10,000 overstatement of her employee home office deductions stemming from the figures Turbotax imported from the prior year. She sent the IRS the volumes of documents for everything they were asking for, plus explained the error we had discovered & requested that the IRS bill her for the additional taxes. Well, what do you know - the IRS issued a No Change letter! So, why would they do that? | |
| 27 September 2009 | |
| Maybe they found what they were looking for. It happens. | |
| 27 September 2009 | |
| Smokey, I think they were so impressed that she even had a home that they gave her a break. | |
Death&Taxes (talk|edits) said: | 27 September 2009 |
| Maybe Tim Geithner did a hands-on audit. | |
| 27 September 2009 | |
| My theory is that if the IRS starts being hard-nosed about Turbotax computational and carryforward errors and word gets out, more folks will go back to sending in paper returns, & the processing system will grind to a halt.
Or, Congress might have to (gasp) simplify taxes and then where would we be? | |
| 27 September 2009 | |
| or the IRS person was just baffled by the pure massive amount of bullshit that Turbotax printed out | |
| 27 September 2009 | |
| So now, Smokey, comes the ethical question: Will you tell your friend about the error and recommend that she amend her return? If she were a client I'm sure that you would follow Circular 230, but what are our responsibilities to non-clients who just ask for free advice? | |
| 27 September 2009 | |
| Good point, Kevinh5.
Actually, I did agonize over that very issue when I found the error, and decided that my best advice was that she come clean. So, at my suggestion she pointed out the error to the IRS in the letter she sent with her backup documents, literally requesting that they bill her for the additional taxes owed. At this point, with the No Change letter in hand, do you think we have to do anything else? | |
