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THIRTY EIGHT-plus minutes on hold listening to that miserable aggravating muzak the IRS torments us with, to get a recording saying "Due to technical difficulties, we are unable to answer your call at the present time. Please try again later." Click. Excuse me?!?! You couldn't have said that within the first TEN minutes? I don't often yell into my phone, but this time I did. Don't recall using any potty-mouth words but I won't guarantee that, either. I'm so mad I could kick someone into the next county right about now.

Then they need to start putting fax numbers on the stupid letters. Instead, they give phone numbers (sometimes plural) and say to call for a number if you need to fax in a response. So professionals tie up the lines looking for a frimping fax number, only to get disconnected by bad phone systems. the phone maintenance people are the ones needing a spanking. If they're going to hang up on people, it should be immediately , not after three quarters of an hour or more.

I don't have a web site. I really do not want to use the software company after this year. I feel like I got robbed. I have several hundred transactions a year, so it's a pretty weighty decision for me. I need to have only one source so I can track it easily, too.

ROTFLMAO!!! I just KNEW this board would take my aggravation and make me laugh instead.

I had the IRS hangup this summer. Drove me freakin nuts. You know what really drove me nuts? Client had died (IRS knew this) and they mailed a CP notice to the client for a final return adjustment. Well, the IRS basically refused to talk to anyone about the account. Me, the client's POA, the client's family members and the client's attorney. The IRS agents on the phone said the only person they could talk with was a court appointed executor but 100% of the assets were in a trust and already distributed by the time the CP arrived. All that was remaining was this refund check. Very frustrating.

If you are not particular, I could use a trip right about now.

When you are doing a lot of credit cards, and a lot of volume, it pays to compare prices. If I hadn't gotten slammed with itransact, which CCH endorsed by incorporating it with the program, I would have stayed with them. The price was very competitive and the software was easy to use. The operative word in this statement is "WAS."

I believe the IRS Budget has been cut for the last 5 years in a row now and now has 11,000 fewer employees, whom are mostly retiring baby boomers who were the most experienced senior employees. It likely will get much worse than it is now.

According to The Tax Book, " The transaction is treated as a sale of the property which may result in a gain or a loss, unless one of the exceptions to the inclusion of cancelled debt income applies. " Suggest you read Pub 908, Bankruptcy Tax Guide.

NOT intended to be political. I think it is the IRS' duty to prove they have taken steps *not* to be used as a political tool, by ANYONE. They have enough legitimate work to do, and not enough people to do it, as it is! Judge orders IRS to respond by October 16