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		<title>Administrative Procedure Act and IRS Deficiency Notices</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2012/01/22/administrative-procedure-act-and-irs-deficiency-notices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Audits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By way (once again) of Paul Caron (emphasis is mine): Smith: The APA&#8217;s Reasoned-Explanation Rule and IRS Deficiency Notices Patrick J. Smith (Ivins, Phillips &#38; Barker, Washington, D.C.), The APA&#8217;s Reasoned-Explanation Rule and IRS Deficiency Notices, 134 Tax Notes 331 (Jan. 16, 2012): The D.C. Circuit’s confirmation in Cohen that the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) applies to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Easy to Steal IRS Refunds</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/30/its-easy-to-steal-irs-refunds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/30/its-easy-to-steal-irs-refunds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Individual Taxation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tax Crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity theft]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[irs matching]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[refund scams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago we addressed the IRS&#8217;s flawed refund procedure in False Refund Schemes and Backwards IRS Return Processing Rules. Today, Jay Weaver of the Miami Herald gives a distressing update in Scammers Steal IRS Refunds with Ease: “We are seeing defendants once involved in other types of crimes [such as  drug trafficking] getting involved in identity-theft schemes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Commish Wants Simpler Tax Code</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/21/irs-commish-wants-simpler-tax-code/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/21/irs-commish-wants-simpler-tax-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Penalties]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doug shulman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs fingerprinting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman has come out for tax simplification: Most taxpayers want simplicity. They want to pay what they owe, understand what tax benefits they are entitled to, and not get tripped up by the system. However, today’s Tax Code is anything but simple. It is so complex that it makes it hard for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS to Seize Homes and Retirement Counts for Back Taxes</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/17/irs-to-sieze-homes-and-retirement-counts-for-back-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/17/irs-to-sieze-homes-and-retirement-counts-for-back-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Installment Agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS Liens and Levies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax Collections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federal tax lien]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Again, from Paul Caron: IRS to Wage &#8216;Full Court Press&#8217; Against Homes, Retirement Accounts for Back Taxes Washington Examiner, Obama&#8217;s IRS to Initiate Full Court Press, Warn Tax Law Experts: As 2012 approaches, tax attorneys are sounding the  alarm: The IRS will squeeze every cent it can and &#8220;it will be nastier  than ever.&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Continues to Battle Tax Refund Fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/01/irs-continues-to-battle-tax-refund-fraud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/11/01/irs-continues-to-battle-tax-refund-fraud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Audits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Tax Preparers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[homebuyer credit fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WebCPA reports that the IRS increased the number of fraudulent tax refund claims it detected and stopped during the 2011 tax-filing season by 171 percent over the previous year: As of April 30, 2011, the IRS had identified 775,723 tax returns with $4.6 billion claimed in fraudulent refunds and prevented the issuance of $4.4 billion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Roguery is Not a New Development</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/31/irs-roguery-is-not-a-new-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/31/irs-roguery-is-not-a-new-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tax Attorney and tax blogger Kelly Phillips-Erb said that an IRS agent hung up on her the other day in IRS Gone Bad: Are Things About to Get Worse? Over the years, I’ve represented a lot of clients. I’ve listened to hours and hours of IRS hold music. And I’ve had a lot of conversations with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Lawyer Ethics</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/14/irs-lawyer-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/14/irs-lawyer-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 14:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Court Cases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Paul Caron: Kwon: Four Difficult Ethical Questions for IRS Lawyers Michelle Kwon (Texas Tech), The Tax Man’s Ethics: Four of the Hardest Ethical Questions for an IRS Lawyer, 9 Cardozo Pub. L. Pol’y &#38; Ethics J. 371 (2011): The article explores the disagreement, particularly among academics, about whether government lawyers have greater obligations to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AICPA Opposes IRS Fees, Fingerprinting of Tax Preparers</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/11/aicpa-opposes-irs-fees-fingerprinting-of-tax-preparers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/11/aicpa-opposes-irs-fees-fingerprinting-of-tax-preparers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WebCPA reports that the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) is asking the Internal Revenue Service to reconsider some of the fees it plans to charge for competency exams and fingerprinting as part of its tax preparer oversight program. The new fees would apply to individuals who are required to take the IRS competency examination in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conscripting Tax Preparers Part 2: EITC Due Diligence Requirements</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/08/conscripting-tax-preparers-part-2-eitc-due-diligence-requirements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/08/conscripting-tax-preparers-part-2-eitc-due-diligence-requirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Audits]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[eitc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[irs due diligence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I wrote a post titled IRS Disbars CPA for Relying on Client&#8217;s Income and Expense Numbers about a disturbing trend by the IRS to draft private tax preparers and force them to work as IRS auditors without pay. Here&#8217;s what I said: Tax preparers are advocates for their taxpayer clients and do not work for the IRS. Even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Use of Tax Liens Often Violates its Stated Mission</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/06/irs-lien-procedure-must-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/10/06/irs-lien-procedure-must-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Liens and Levies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[abuse of power]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[notice of federal tax lien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paul caron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Caron discusses Danshera Cords&#8217; Brandeis Law Review article Lien on Me: Virtual Debtors Prisons, The Practical Effects of Tax Liens and Proposals for Reform, 49 Brandeis L.J. 341 (2011): This Article discusses the harm that a notice of federal tax lien can cause an individual as a result of the effect of filing a notice of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History of the Income Tax (Or Why Buffett&#8217;s Full of it)</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/28/history-of-the-income-tax-why-buffett-is-full-of-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/28/history-of-the-income-tax-why-buffett-is-full-of-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Steele of the Wall Street Journal gives us A Short History of the Income Tax and JLP of All Financial Matters summarizes: Distilled into bullet points: After the Civil War, the government relied mostly on the tariff for revenues, which was basically a consumption tax that hit the poor much harder than the rich. An income tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS To Fingerprint Tax Preparers</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/28/irs-to-fingerprint-tax-preparers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/28/irs-to-fingerprint-tax-preparers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you read that correctly. The Journal of Accountancy reports that the IRS plans to start fingerprinting thousands of tax preparers as part of its oversight program and run the fingerprints through an FBI database: The IRS released more details on its tax preparer oversight program on Wednesday, and said registered tax return preparers would now be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware IRS Employees Who Have Power But Lack Status</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/26/beware-irs-employees-who-have-power-but-lack-status/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/26/beware-irs-employees-who-have-power-but-lack-status/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following will come as no suprirse to anyone who has spent any amount of time dealing with the IRS and other government agencies. Michael Martinez of CNN writes: A new study by three universities shows that people holding positions of power with low status tend to demean others, one of the authors said. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIGTA Report: Unauthorized Workers Received $4.2 Billion in Refundable Tax Credits Last Year</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/01/tigta-report-unauthorized-workers-received-4-2-billion-in-refundable-tax-credits-last-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/09/01/tigta-report-unauthorized-workers-received-4-2-billion-in-refundable-tax-credits-last-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Exhibit &#8220;4,981&#8243; showing why people who actually want to give more of their money to the federal government are a couple of ants short of a picnic: WASHINGTON – Individuals who are not authorized to work in the United States received billions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) last year in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Makes a lot of Math Errors</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/26/irs-makes-a-lot-of-math-errors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/26/irs-makes-a-lot-of-math-errors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has released Some Taxpayer Responses to Math Error Adjustments Were Not Worked Timely and Accurately (2011-40-059). Here&#8217;s a brief summary: Most (98.4%) of the approximately 8.6 million math error notices were agreed to by the taxpayer. However, our review identified that some responses in which taxpayers disagreed with the math [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Fails to Timely Respond to Taxpayer Inquiries</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/10/irs-fails-to-timely-respond-to-taxpayer-inquiries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/08/10/irs-fails-to-timely-respond-to-taxpayer-inquiries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxpayer Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internal revenue manual]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=24477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WebCPA once again reports that the IRS is not following its own rules: The Internal Revenue Service isn’t meeting a self-imposed 30-day deadline of responding to written inquiries from taxpayers, according to a new report. The report, from the Treasury Inspector General of Tax Administration, found that of 73 correspondence cases sampled from the IRS’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIGTA Reports on More IRS Screw-Ups</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/27/tigta-reports-on-more-irs-screw-ups/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/27/tigta-reports-on-more-irs-screw-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Credits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first time homebuyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homebuyer credit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[irs inefficiency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tax fraud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has issued another report on IRS inefficiency, which, no doubt, will be met by the Commissioner&#8217;s demand for more funding (see Related Posts, below). TIGTA reports that some taxpayers received multiple refunds for their First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit claims, while others changed the acquisition date of their homes on their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great News for Innocent Spouses: IRS Eliminates 2 Year Rule</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/26/great-news-irs-nicks-innocent-spouse-2-year-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/26/great-news-irs-nicks-innocent-spouse-2-year-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Innocent Spouse Relief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2 year rule]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equitable relief]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Caron reports that yesterday the IRS released (IR-2011-80) Notice 2011-70 which abandons the rule that requires innocent spouses to make their claims for relief within 2 years from the date IRS collection activity first began: The IRS today announced that it will extend help to more innocent spouses by eliminating the two-year time limit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Broke the Law 32,000 Times in Issuance of Tax Liens</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/25/irs-broke-the-law-32000-times-in-issuance-of-tax-liens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/25/irs-broke-the-law-32000-times-in-issuance-of-tax-liens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Liens and Levies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WebCPA reports that an estimated 32,552 taxpayers may have been harmed because the IRS did not follow legal requirements to notify them and their representatives of their rights related to tax liens in a timely fashion, according to a new government report (emphasis is mine): The report, from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Fails to Notify Taxpayers and Their Representatives of Tax Lien Filings</title>
		<link>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/19/irs-fails-to-notify-taxpayers-and-their-representatives-of-tax-lien-filings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pappasontaxes.com/index.php/2011/07/19/irs-fails-to-notify-taxpayers-and-their-representatives-of-tax-lien-filings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 15:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IRS Liens and Levies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS procedure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs conduct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IRS liens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irs procedures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[notice of federal tax lien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax liens]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.pappastax.com/?p=23669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) reports what tax practitioners have known for years (emphasis is mine): After filing Notices of Federal Tax Lien, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) must notify the affected taxpayers in writing, at their last known address, within five business days of the lien filings. However, as noted in previous [...]]]></description>
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