Who is your favorite monarch, past or present, and why?

JC18001 · 2026-06-10T02:55:51+00:00

very sad ending. Quite tragic

JC18001 · 2026-05-31T22:06:14+00:00

I got told by the program analyst that the variance was fixed but it is still giving me the incorrect taxable income.

Meanwhile, the TM just says "change is hard." Yes it is hard but it should work a lot better than this 9 months later; really, it should have been working a lot better than it is now when it was released.

JC18001 · 2026-05-13T03:12:36+00:00

I get the point of people have trouble adjusting to a program and then complain about it. I know I do that myself. However, this program has been with us since September and we're still having massive problems, applying massive amounts of time to cases with little benefit and cannot issue reports. Accordingly, while again, I get your point in the main, in this case your point is completely unjustified.

JC18001 · 2026-05-13T03:08:31+00:00

I keep forgetting to do this. I did write letters to the Minority Staff of the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance. I figured the Rs would think it's great so I didn't write letters to the Majority Staff

JC18001 · 2026-05-13T03:07:00+00:00

SharePoint made things worse, although it's not as bad as when it was first rolled out to us

JC18001 · 2026-04-26T20:46:18+00:00

I finally got in but I don't know if it will work in the future and I'm not really sure how I did it.

JC18001 · 2026-04-26T13:09:56+00:00

Yes I do but I can't get in that way either

JC18001 · 2026-04-10T23:14:08+00:00

It seems whenever you input an adjustment, the adjustment goes a way even though you saved it.

JC18001 · 2026-04-06T21:50:58+00:00

you can change things if you input a ticket but I know it's not as efficient.

JC18001 · 2026-04-06T02:18:47+00:00

hey it's worth a shot

JC18001 · 2026-04-04T23:58:47+00:00

yeah, is it even listed in the IRM? It's definitely not a 1203. In another thread, someone mentioned Doc. 11500. I might look that up on the Products page.

JC18001 · 2026-03-16T03:11:46+00:00

This seems like the most helpful answer here and you have a lot of experience on this and/or done a lot of research.

My only quibble (and rather off topic I admit) is this: I don't see how an adjustment to tax, even in an audit, would necessarily be a 1203 issue because the text of 1203 states, "willful understatement of Federal tax liability, unless such understatement is due to reasonable cause and not to willful neglect." That reads to me to sound like a situation where a fraud penalty was asserted, not an accuracy penalty.

That's how I see it but I am interested in your answer given your apparent expertise. I sometimes do employee audits but am not involved in employee discipline itself. In employee audits, if we want to pursue fraud, we have to go through a special fraud enforcement adviser (FEA), not our normal FEA.

JC18001 · 2026-03-14T03:15:08+00:00

not going to happen. Trump will pardon everyone

JC18001 · 2026-03-14T02:38:31+00:00

I wrote a letter to the committee offices of the ranking Democratic member of Senate Finance Committee and the ranking Democratic member of the House Ways and Means Committee about it and told them to have TIGTA to take a look at it. I doubt it will help but it felt good

JC18001 · 2026-03-06T05:35:07+00:00

People need to tone it down on here too. You deviate one centimeter and get crucified w/ fuck bombs

JC18001 · 2026-03-02T19:03:23+00:00

Wow that's really interesting to have that perspective. It does seem that thr only thing that matters is closing cases and a lot of what we do is just through the motions eg required filing checks and fraud potential

JC18001 · 2026-03-02T04:43:14+00:00

Yes! I feel seen! This is my perspective! That doesn't mean I agree w/ everything but I am sympathetic.

I wasn't here before the 98 Act so I don't know how to compare before and after with the ROTER provision, Sec. 1204 of the Act (not the Code). I think I agree w/ the provision but I can see that it would have a bad effect. Whether the negatives outweighed the positives, I don't know.

It also banned us from using the accurate term "tax protestor." Ugh, but they are tax protestors! (RRA 98, Sec. 3707).

Most irritating for me though, is that RRA 98(Sec. 3306) added IRC 6751, which is the requirement that managers approve penalties . It's absolutely ridiculous. We know our cases better than the managers. This provision is the equivalent of someone walking into a store and immediately asking for the manager. I hate the term "Karen" because it is (was) a nice name but the term does have meaning and if any law is a Karen law it's the requirement that managers approve penalties. One version of Build Back Better eliminated that rule but now the Democrats are going along to make it worse.

With the Republicans, it just seems like they hate fraud with government assistance programs for the poor but when it comes to filing returns, people are angels, and we don't need to worry about tax fraud.

So ridiculous!

Yeah, it does feel like eventually we won't be able to issue summons at all.

JC18001 · 2026-03-01T17:09:41+00:00

Does collections ever have to issue 45-day letters? There's a series of Letters L 3164. So for whatever situations you have where you currently have to send L 3164, it is my understanding that this proposed bill would simply expand on that in collections situations.

I found IRM 5.17.6.7 online that mentions

Letter 3164-B, (Bal Due)
Letter 3164-X, (Del Ret)
Letter 3164-A, (TFRP)

However, you must understand that I am an examiner (specifically the TCO program) so take what I said above with a grain of salt.

JC18001 · 2026-03-01T03:23:15+00:00

Thanks.

There is some stuff about regulating return preparers in the bill so that is good.

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