Your Rights as a Taxpayer

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Your Rights as a Taxpayer

As stated by the Internal Revenue Service, their mission is to

Provide America’s taxpayers top-quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all.

It was toward this end that the Taxpayer Bill of Rights were created by the IRS and incorporated into Publication 1. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights contain 10 provisions compiled by the Internal Revenue Service that “Take the multiple existing rights embedded in the tax code and groups them into 10 broad categories making them more visible and easier for taxpayers to find.”

Read Taxpayer Bill of Rights Here

The 10 Taxpayer Rights are

1. The Right to Be Informed
2. The Right to Quality Service
3. The Right to Pay No More than the Correct Amount of Tax
4. The Right to Challenge the IRS’s Position and be Heard
5. The Right to Appeal an IRS Decision in an Independent Forum
6. The Right to Finality
7. The Right to Privacy
8. The Right to Confidentiality
9. The Right to Retain Representation
10. The Right to a fair and Just Tax System

Read Taxpayer Bill of Rights Here

As stated in Right 9, taxpayers have “The Right to Retain Representation.” Enrolled Agent Patrick White, President of Pat Tax Inc, is empowered by the United States Department of the Treasury to represent taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service in regard to tax matters. Pat can be contacted at (347) 949-TAXE(8293) or email: Pattaxhelp@gmail.com.

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