Happy New Year and welcome to the Tax E Man Blog. As we enter tax preparation season, it is important to know what your rights as a tax payer are. It is for this reason that this issue provides recent revisions to these rights as well as other important updates.
In this issue content from the tax letter “Tax News and Industry Updates” will be provided. Among the subjects covered is the “Taxpayer Bill of Rights”. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights is 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.”.
Press 2014 Tax News and Industry Updates to read.
The 10 Taxpayer Rights are
- The Right to Be Informed
- The Right to Quality Service
- The Right to Pay No More than the Correct Amount of Tax
- The Right to Challenge the IRS’ Position and Be Heard
- The Right to Appeal an IRS Decision in an Independent Forum
- The Right to Finality
- The Right to Privacy
- The Right to Confidentiality
- the Right to Retain Representation
- The Right to a Fair and Just Tax System
The Taxpayer Bill of Rights has been incorporated into IRS Publication 1, “Your Rights as a Taxpayer”, revised in 2014.
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