Computer scammers are posing as the IRS sending emails about tax transcripts. If you open the email or any attachments, a virus will be spread throughout your computer taking months to clear it out!
DO NOT OPEN ANY EMAIL purportedly from the IRS; and, DO NOT PROVIDE or confirm any personal INFORMATION, including your address, to anyone OVER THE PHONE who states they are from the IRS. Ask them to send you a letter and immediately hang-up without confirming anything.
The first communication you will ever receive from the IRS is through the United States Postal Service. If the IRS Notice asks you to call them, my advice is to always respond via certified mail; and, never personally speak to an IRS agent.
If you have received an IRS Audit Notice, you may be interested in my book, How to Prepare For, Control, and Successfully Survive an IRS Audit, available through JeffersonianGroup.com, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. If you have engaged a CPA or Tax Attorney, you should ask them to get my book, along with The U.S. Individual Income Tax is Incompatible with a Free Society. They just might learn something and provide you a much better outcome!
Dum Spiro, spero—While I breathe, I hope.
Slainte mhath,
Robert G. Beard Jr., C.P.A., C.G.M.A., J.D., LL.M.
