Re: Mailing tax return


"D.D. Palmer" <ddpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Can you explain to me how getting a returned receipt proves
that what you actually sent was your tax return?




It only proves that the IRS received an envelope. Lacking any evidence from
the IRS recordkeeping system (HA!!!!!) of what was in the envelope, the
judges side with your hopefully credible statement that it contained the
return, payment, etc.

That's why e-file is so good, you eliminate the US postal system (generally
not a problem) and the receiving, sorting, shuffling separating, resorting,
reshuffling, resorting, (seriously, there's a guy at IRS who takes your
return apart and sorts into the order it needs to be in for data entry) and
data entry department workers of the IRS.

E-file sets the data file at the point just after data entry, bypassing the
most underpaid overworked temps at the IRS.





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Paul A. Thomas, CPA
Athens, Georgia




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