Re: Need Help With The IRS-SCARED TO DEATH

Posted by Keyser Soze (64.12.96.205) on May 17, 2003 at 19:49:53:

In Reply to: Need Help With The IRS-SCARED TO DEATH posted by Worried on May 16, 2003 at 23:52:46:

I'm with Patti. The IRS and this unworthy scribe had a couple of small issues years ago, even before the 1998 Congressional tail-trimming the agency received.
The IRS man who handled my case was a decent guy like anyone else, an ex-military aviator who was young once and well understood the matters of which you write and about which no doubt you are distressed.
This gentleman set up a payment plan which was more than workable and the debt was discharged well ahead of schedule.
The IRS loves to hear from people in writing. Sometimes a letter backed up by a phone call works wonders. The IRS becomes agitated when they do not hear from you. They would rather hear of your difficulties requiring some ammendment to a payment arrangement than hear from you not at all. Regular contact establishes good will with the agency, when they lose contact they presume, perhaps unfairly but nevertheless, that the taxpayer is acting in bad faith. That's usually when liens, bank account seizures and the like occur.
The collection agencies and even banker OC's could take a great lesson in humanity, forgiveness, decency from the Internal Revenue Service, as many who have been treated rather well will confirm. But then again, that is quite a presumption, that collection agencies are at all teachable, much less their string-pulling banker buds.
Talk to the IRS, write them, visit their office. Sometimes a mano y mano visit works wonders, let them get a look at you so as to connect your face with your letters or telephone voice. You are in better straits than you realize.

Best,

Keyser Soze

"Mr. Soze's primary interest is narcotics."
- Mr. Kobayashi, "The Usual Suspects" c. 1995

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