by Fresh Start Tax | Oct 18, 2018 | Tax Help
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As a general rules, the Internal Revenue Service closes their open collection cases for those who owe IRS back taxes through:
1. installment agreements,
2.bankruptcies,
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5. by statute.
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Unfiled tax returns.
When IRS works any open collection case they conduct what’s called a full compliance check.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Oct 1, 2018 | Tax Help
We are former IRS agents, managers and teaching instructors. We have worked in the IRS audit and collection divisions.
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You will find enclosed the report of the treasury internal general and regarding the state of IRS tax audits and the many noncompliance issues they have.
Tips are considered wages and are subject to employment taxes including Federal Insurance Contributions Act, Federal Unemployment Tax Act, and Federal income tax withholding.
If the IRS does not enforce underreported tip income by employees and employers, it is unfair to those taxpayers who do report and pay tax on tip income accurately.
WHY TIGTA DID THE AUDIT
The IRS estimates that 10 percent ($23 billion) of the estimated 2006 individual income tax underreporting Tax Gap ($235 billion) is due to unreported tip income by employees. The overall objective of this audit was to determine whether the IRS is using the National Tip Reporting Compliance Program (NTRCP) to provide balanced and adequate reporting compliance oversight of taxpayers in industries in which tipping is customary.
WHAT TIGTA FOUND
The NTRCP prioritized the renewal of lower risk Gaming Industry Tip Compliance Agreements (GITCA) and Tip Rate Determination Agreements (TRDA) over higher risk compliance reviews of Tip Reporting Alternative Commitment (TRAC) agreements and tip examinations. Since Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, the NTRCP completed 875 GITCA and TRDA renewals compared with 262 tip examinations and 53 TRAC reviews.
TIGTA determined that 1,971 (30 percent) of the 6,513 businesses with tip agreements that also filed taxes during Tax Year 2016 had projected unreported tips of nearly $1.66 billion. Employers with TRAC agreements accounted for 815 (41 percent) of this noncompliance, involving almost $1.2 billion (72 percent), including 47 full-service restaurants that potentially underreported by over $1 million each.
The IRS provided tip income audit protection to these potentially noncompliant businesses and employees.
There is an even higher risk of tax noncompliance for employers in tipping industries that do not have a tip agreement. TIGTA identified 15,771 employers with $6.3 billion in projected unreported tip income for Tax Year 2016, including 676 employers who underreported by over $1 million. Meanwhile, the NTRCP completed only 34 tip examinations of employers in FY 2016.
IRS management believes that focusing on the renewal of GITCAs allows them to reach and maintain compliance for a large number of employers and their employees all at once.
However, TIGTA determined that **1** of 10 randomly sampled FY 2017 GITCA and TRDA renewal reviews resulted in either no change to the tip rates or a reduction by an average of 17 percent.
In addition, unlike TRACs, GITCA and TRDA employers must submit annual reports that the NTRCP can use to assess the risk of noncompliance.
TIGTA’s review of the 10 most recently completed tip agreement compliance reviews showed that the NTRCP examiners had documented at least one reason to revoke the tip agreements in **1** cases, but the agreements were not revoked. The NTRCP has revoked only 13 tip agreements since FY 2013.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Sep 24, 2018 | Tax Help
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IRS audits less than 1% of all taxpayers nationwide.
Facts about IRS Tax Audits:
The IRS audits a total of 1,391,581 tax returns a year.
The IRS field agents complete more than 310,000 audits by office or business visits a year.
The IRS completes over 1,081,152 correspondence audits a year.
IRS has installed new software tracking systems with the development of the CADE 2 computer to spot and recognize tax audits more proficiently
IRS collected over $10 billion dollars a year from IRS tax audits.
IRS employs over 13,000 IRS auditors.
$5.2 billion dollars are collected through the IRS document matching program.
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IRS Policy Statement P-4-21. It states “The primary objective in selecting returns for examination is to promote the highest degree of voluntary compliance on the part of taxpayers.”
The IRS Tax Audit Examination Plan
The plan that is used by the IRS is based on long-range coverage planning, and objectives on the resources requested in the Congressional Budget. From this, there is an established plan where staff years are allocated to all area IRS offices using resource allocation and a prescribed methodology. Each Area Manager of the IRS is responsible for preparing an area response following instructions from the National Headquarters.
Employee Staffing for the IRS Tax Audit
Staffing is based on the examination priorities that differs from office to office and region to region, front loaded programs set up before hand, historic examination rates adjusted to yield sure ended results and audits that match experience of the personnel. Each region is excepted to produce tax audits and money from tax audits. IRS is funded thru results.
Why the IRS Audits Tax Returns
a. Front Loaded Programs
Front Loaded programs are those tax audits that IRS DC headquarters has determined are very important and a considerable amount of time must be spent on these programs and activities. Each area has discussions within management as to what the programs should be for each region, district, and office.
Some of the programs are:
Special enforcement programs – An example of this may be compliance of all flea market vendors, a program I was involved with
High Income non-filers – The IRS would get their information from a match program of w-2’s and 1099’s and match up social security numbers against filed returns
Abusive Tax Avoidance – This could be in the area of offshore activities
The offshore credit card program
National Research programs – Those set forth by management after doing a trends project
FBAR filing – IRS is currently targeting those with overseas bank accounts
Non- filers – IRS is presently forming a task force to seek non-filers though aggressive means.
b. The IRS makes sure there is balanced coverage.
The National Office makes sure there is a balanced approach for audit return delivery and tax compliance. Resources and inventory and the size of personnel all go into this formula. The focus is blended into these areas:
individual returns less than $100,000.
individual returns greater than $100,000 but less than $200,000.
individual returns greater than $ 200,000.
Small Business Corporations.
Small Business Flow-Through Entities – S Corporations, Fiduciaries and Partnerships.
c. Classification Plan
The IRS will prepare a plan, which is classified. A National DIF score indicator is placed on all Federal Income tax returns that are filed. Each tax return has certain factors that contribute to its score such as Gross Income, Adjusted Gross Income and line item expense.
There are several classified secrets that go into the DIF score.
Each tax return is processed through the IRS computer line item by line item.
A DIF score label is placed on every tax return with its DIF number. A tax examiner or Revenue Agent manually eyeballs each and every tax return with a high DIF score. The examiner then determine which return has the highest probability of tax audit success.
d. DIF Cutoff Score
The IRS will calculate the Area DIF cutoff score for each activity code, giving consideration to the selection rate. This is the lowest DIF score necessary to secure the number of returns required for audit. for example, if the return plan shows 225 returns for an activity code and the selection rate is 70%, the IRS will need to order 321 returns (225/70%).
The DIF Cut off Score is 500. The number of returns with DIF scores greater than 550 is 280, which is less than the number of returns required, so the lowest DIF score on an ordered return will be in the range of 500 to 550 and the DIF cutoff score is 500. This is the IRS example as found in the IRS IRM section 4.
e. Where your case is worked
Examination inventory is assigned to IRS offices based on ZIP codes, using the Look up Tables at Martinsburg Computing Center.
f. High Assault Risk Areas
Certain ZIP code areas are identified as High Assault Risk Areas. There are special instructions the IRS has regarding these audits. These returns will be audited.
Survey of Examination Cases.
The IRS can look over your case and close it with an eyeball look.
While cases should be selected and started in accordance with all guidelines, in a limited number of circumstances, there may be returns that appear in the “judgment of the examiner and manager” to warrant survey without taxpayer contact. That is to not even contact the taxpayer.
Cases delivered to the IRS area manager will generally fall into one of three categories: mandatory work, strategic (priority program) work, and non-strategic work.
Mandatory work includes nationally coordinated research projects such as NRP and employee audits (excludes “new” IRS employee audits)
Strategic work is identified annually in the Exam Program Letter which can be found at http://sbse.web.irs.gov/Exam/. The procedures to survey strategic work and referrals from other business units, “new” employee audits and cases with previous taxpayer contact require an explanation for the rationale for the survey.
Cases that are not mandatory work, strategic work, a referral from another business unit, and are not part of an employee examination or research study may be surveyed based upon the professional judgment of the examiner with concurrence of the immediate supervisor.
Here are some factors to consider when determining whether to survey strategic work:
Taxpayer is in bankruptcy
Taxpayer has suffered an extreme hardship or illness
Taxpayer is deceased, or
Examiner has additional information that was not available during classification
This is in the complete judgment of the IRS tax auditor
From year to year the IRS changes their programs to keep everyone honest. However, after years of experience, a trained eye can know what tax returns will be pulled for audit.
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by Fresh Start Tax | Dec 7, 2014 | Tax Help
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by Fresh Start Tax | Nov 14, 2014 | Tax Help
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To deal with back tax debt with the, Internal Revenue Service will take a current and verifiable financial statement. Once the IRS analyzes your financial statement a taxpayer is generally placed into one of two categories.
IRS will place the taxpayer either into a currently not collectible status or ask for a monthly payment plan.
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