Tax practitioners across the country voiced long-simmering anger and frustration with the agency's handling of the so-called offer in compromise (OIC) and the partial-payment installment program even as these lawyers experience an increasing number of taxpayers seeking their help because of job losses or home mortgage problems. And their frustrations are backed by data from the national taxpayer advocate.
"It's absolutely the most abusive unit within the IRS in the way in which they treat taxpayers," said W. Calvin Bomar, a partner at Atlanta's Bomar & Phipps and a former attorney in the IRS' office of chief counsel, referring to centralized IRS units that review offers made by taxpayers to settle their tax liability for less than the amount owed. "Under no circumstance do they want to approve an offer in compromise. I'm talking about people who are destitute and entitled to relief under that program."
It's been my own experience as well. Since the first of the year, the hardcore collection personnel have remained that way.
Guess they haven't yet received the memo from their boss who had a little tax trouble of his own.
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