TAS AREAS OF FOCUS
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“Not that Lisa” has just had her ‘Opt Out’ success story published at Jack Townsend blog. It is accompanied by his comments which I encourage you to read.
I came to know of Lisa during my dark days on Jack’s blog as “anon5Percent”. Later, due to her efforts to find me, I got to know her personally via phone and email conversations. She started commenting here as Lisa and evolved to Not that Lisa to eliminate confusion between her and another commenter.
I could not be more pleased about this success, and only sorry for her that it has taken so much frustration, anxiety, expense, and LCUs, which still required the intervention of the TAS for the IRS to “do the right thing”. I asked her permission tonight, to also highlight her 30 month saga to add to the resource of self help material on Isaac Brock Society.
I thought it was important to headline this ‘ORDEAL’ as many places as possible. I think she is being too generous to call her escape from the IRS penalty extraction processing factory a mere ‘Odyssey’. It is a total waste of taxpayers time and money for naught, and represents one of the reasons that ACA has called this abuse to the attention of the committees in Congress who are investigating IRS T-party scandal. We can not let this milestone pass as just another low profile comment on the OVDI Drudgery thread lost to a larger audience.
Below are the documents that she has made available to Isaac Brock Society. They are uploaded here for others to access and use as examples for their struggles.
Not that Lisa – FINAL My OVDI Odyssey
Not that Lisa – FINAL Opt Out letter
Not that Lisa – FINAL Opt Out Reasonable Cause Arguments
Not tht Lisa – FINAL Streamlined Program Acceptance Letter
Not that Lisa – FINAL Mitigated FBAR Level II Non-Willful Penalties
Not that Lisa – FINAL Letter 3800
What follows are her comments:
There is a good article on The Hill about the complaints that are being directed to Republican Lawmakers about IRS abuse. Apparently, or so it says, Democrat’s are not getting the same feed back.
While both parties have criticized the IRS’s actions, it has mostly been Republicans reporting possible wider abuses.
Asked whether her office had received a wave of allegations of greater IRS abuse, Hannah Kim, communications director for Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said: “Not that I know of,” in an email to The Hill.
Maybe we should help change that!
There is the link to the article, and you will note some comments by Roger that drew my attention to the story. It was originally posted here, and I am pulling out for higher level visibility. A few comments below:
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Here, this should get your blood boiling. Hat tip to @Tim who just drew my attention to this article at Politico.
Kerrey: IRS advocate to blame for scandal
I am just stunned by the chutz·pah of this Democrat to try and deflect political fallout on the Dems.
We need some Brockers to weigh in.
I am beginning to think this IRS scandal which broke Friday has some legs. It was above the fold on the front pages of two local Bellingham papers today. I think we can use this attention to tell a broader story of IRS misdirected energies and persecution of American’s abroad with their OVDPs and FATCA administration! Continue reading
Nina Olson is used to strangers in the supermarket complaining to her about their taxes at this time of year.
As the national taxpayer advocate, Olson’s job is to discover any way in which the IRS bureaucracy, or the tax laws passed by Congress, are harming taxpayers. And tax-filing season is when those ills are most easily detected.
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From the Press Release:
National Taxpayer Advocate Delivers Annual Report to Congress; Focuses on Tax Reform, IRS Funding and Identity Theft
WASHINGTON — National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson today released her 2012 annual report to Congress, identifying the need for tax reform as the overriding priority in tax administration. The Advocate also expressed concern that the Internal Revenue Service is not adequately funded to serve taxpayers and collect tax, and identified ways in which this chronic under-funding harms taxpayers and the public fisc. She also found that the IRS is not doing enough to assist victims of tax-related identity theft and return preparer fraud.
NUMBER ONE Problem: The most serious problem facing taxpayers — and the IRS — is the COMPEXITY of the Internal Revenue Code (the “tax code”).
Yes, we all know that, but of special interest to many readers here is item number 8.
Update from @Lisa. Thank you.
Just a quick post to draw your attention to this Christian Science Monitor story on Nina Olson of the TAS.
This lady should be Commissioner Shulman’s replacement, but that would be too logical for Congress. Even if Obama were smart enough to do that, the Republicans would block her just to spite him. That is how the political game is played.
There is a story out tonight on Yahoo News and other sources that ACA (American Citizens Abroad) has just sent a letter to Commissioner Shulman about his refusal to respond formally to Nina Olson’s TAD.
Concerned Organization of Americans Abroad Writes to #IRS About Unfair IRS Treatment of Americans Overseas bit.ly/yzlKI0 #FBAR #FATCA
— Marvin Van Horn (@FATCA_Fallout) March 9, 2012
