My "Taxpayer's Statement" to the IRS
(Today I finally mailed out the revised tax forms to the IRS and CRA, only fourteen months after the IRS sent me their baseless accusations of tax impropriety. Below is the beginning of the "Taxpayer's Statement" that I included among the eighteen pieces of paper in the mailing to the IRS. CRA got only six pieces of paper.)
On July 28th of 2008, the IRS sent me a CP11 notice, denying my Earned Income Credit. The only explanation offered was “Information on your tax return indicates that you don't qualify for this credit.” To obtain more detail about the problem, I made calls to the (215) phone number shown on the notice, but was unable to get through to a human being within a reasonable amount of time. I mailed requests for more detail to IRS post-office boxes, but the only responses were form letters saying “You have not contacted us.” I asked TaxAct.com to review the forms they had generated for me-they couldn't find any problem. I asked H&R Block to amend the forms for me-they couldn't find anything to amend.
On June 15th of 2009, the IRS sent me a “Notice of Intent to Levy” which I did not receive until around July 12th. Because of postal delays, it seemed there was no response I could make to the notice that wouldn't involve waiving some legal rights, so I sent my 2007 tax file to a law office for review. The review determined that I had treated my 2007 Q4 income as taxed in the USA but by treaty it should be taxed in Canada. As for the “information on your return” that indicated “you don't qualify for this credit”, maybe it was my Canadian mailing address?
On July 28th of 2008, the IRS sent me a CP11 notice, denying my Earned Income Credit. The only explanation offered was “Information on your tax return indicates that you don't qualify for this credit.” To obtain more detail about the problem, I made calls to the (215) phone number shown on the notice, but was unable to get through to a human being within a reasonable amount of time. I mailed requests for more detail to IRS post-office boxes, but the only responses were form letters saying “You have not contacted us.” I asked TaxAct.com to review the forms they had generated for me-they couldn't find any problem. I asked H&R Block to amend the forms for me-they couldn't find anything to amend.
On June 15th of 2009, the IRS sent me a “Notice of Intent to Levy” which I did not receive until around July 12th. Because of postal delays, it seemed there was no response I could make to the notice that wouldn't involve waiving some legal rights, so I sent my 2007 tax file to a law office for review. The review determined that I had treated my 2007 Q4 income as taxed in the USA but by treaty it should be taxed in Canada. As for the “information on your return” that indicated “you don't qualify for this credit”, maybe it was my Canadian mailing address?