Success Stories

12/9/2014

Stop That Lien!

A self-employed government contractor found herself owing a significant balance due after the IRS di...

Success Stories

12/9/2014

TAS Helps Taxpayer Get Levy Released

A local TAS office received a frantic call from taxpayer who had just been notified the IRS had levi...

Success Stories

12/9/2014

Helping a Family Deal with a Stolen Identity

When a husband and wife were billed for taxes resulting from an IRS assessment under the husband’s...

Success Stories

11/9/2014

Getting a Fresh Start

The taxpayer came to TAS after the IRS wouldn’t accept his proposed payment amount for an installm...

TAS in the news

5/13/2014

NTA’s Concerns About Private Debt Collection

In a recent letter to Congress, National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA) Nina Olson expresses concerns about...

NTA Blog

7/2/2013

NTA Nina Olson delivers Laurence Neal Woodworth Memorial Lecture

National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA) Nina Olson delivered the Laurence Neal Woodworth Memorial Lecture a...

NTA Blog

5/13/2013

NTA Nina Olson Special Report for Tax Notes: More Than a ‘Mere’ Preparer: Lo...

For the May 13, 2013 edition of Tax Notes, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson wrote a special rep...

NTA Blog

4/4/2012

Virtual Face-to-Face Audits: A prescription for curing the IRS’s ailing corres...

Over the last few weeks, I’ve written about the problems associated with the Internal Revenue Serv...

NTA Blog

3/13/2012

IRS Correspondence Examinations: Are they really as effective as the IRS thinks?

NTA Blog

2/15/2012

Why we need a Taxpayer Bill of Rights

Last year, in a nationwide survey of U.S. taxpayers who had filed a 2010 tax return, the Taxpayer Ad...