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Cintas and Accounting Firm Brixey & Meyer Issue Tax Day Tips to Protect Personal Information

CINCINNATI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In conjunction with Tax Day on Monday, April 18, Cintas, a leader in secure document management, and Brixey & Meyer, a full-service accounting and business advisory firm, issued tax tips to help consumers protect their confidential information and remain compliant with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). “In 2009, revenue department officials identified more than 29 …

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Question: Have you reveived an fake email from the IRS regarding a refund?

From:”Internal Revenue Service” <7409218@irs.gov> Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Important Notification – Tax refund – ID: FFHJSGSRYS
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:01:50 -0600

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that
you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $109.23.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-6 days in order to
process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access the form for your tax refund, please click here
Don’t click on the reponse instead, forward it to phishing@irs.gov

Answer: Generally, the IRS does not send emails. I have gotten emails from the IRS but I am a tax professional and initiated the contact.

The IRS will never contact a taxpayer thru email to inform you about the status of your return. Ask youself…how would they know your email address to begin with?

Next, if the IRS do find and error and choose to correct it without you correcting it…they will simply send a check to your last known address. But, this is a very rare.

IRS reduces paper-filed tax return processers, encourages e-filing

The most anyone might want from the Internal Revenue Service is a refund.IRS officials are hoping more can reach that goal with fewer errors by filing their tax returns electronically this year versus sending in a paper version.

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Question: How do I contact the IRS about correcting an incorrect routing number?

I did my taxes with Tax Cut as I did last year. When my data was imported, the bank info imported as well. When my refund wasn’t deposited on the 15th as the IRS said it would be, I opened my refund only to discover that the routing number was incorrect. The bank changed the routing number when it upgraded software last year so that there was only one routing number for all accounts. It was so close to the beginning of the year that I forgot I’d used the old one last year and didn’t check the info as closely as I should have. I have called the 800 number for the IRS only to be dumped into an automated system that doesn’t help me. The local offices have phone numbers but don’t take live calls. The Tax Cut helpline didn’t have any other numbers to offer me. How can I contact the IRS and fix this ASAP?
I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to correct it and they would send me a paper check. Does anyone know roughly how long this will take?

Answer: You can go to the walk-in center for the IRS in your town/city. On the IRS website there are alternative contact information so you can avoid the long wait on the phone.

Busy IRS means longer waits for calls

A look at call volume and response, by the numbers

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Question: Anyone gone thru the process for buying fully automatic weapons?

Hey guys, thanks for answering the other questions. I need to pick the brain of hopefully a class 3 dealer. But maybe someone else out there can answer this one for me. I am of course in AZ and want to know how involved the class 3 process is to buy a full auto or other NFA classified “destructive” device.

First off, I am a little confused about the rule that you can only buy a full auto that was manufactured before 1986 or something. Can someone elaborate on this a bit? Then you need to go through a class 3 dealer and here is where it get all messy, you have to fill out an ATF form 4; now does the guy at the gun shop help you with this? Also heard it needs to be signed by someone in a high ranking law enforcement position before it can even be sent off to the feds for background check. Then after here is paying the $200 dollar tax stamp to the IRS straight forward?

Answer: I have not gone through the process, but am familiar with it and I can answer some of your other questions.

The reason you cannot buy a class III weapon made before 20 May 1986 is because of the ban. In short, you cannot make laws retroactive in this respect. Anything that was legal before, you cannot make illegal now. This is where the terms pre and post ban come from. A pre ban weapon was made prior to 20 May 1986 while a post ban weapon was made after 20 May 1986. Since then no new class III weapons have been manufactured for civilian use which is why their cost is so enormous.

And yes, as you stated, you need to fill out a Form 4 (see first link below) as well as have a class III dealer who you need it shipped/transferred to if you cannot go get it personally. This means an extra $200 tax stamp which the seller and class III dealer will usually charge you for. This is because you need a tax stamp for EVERY transfer of the weapon. So when the weapon is transferred to your class III dealer, one $200 tax stamp is paid, then when it is transferred to you, another $200 tax stamp is paid. The only exception for this is if the machine gun is being transferred from one class III dealer to another. In this case, they do not have to pay the transfer tax. In short, this means it would save you about $200 to buy from a class III dealer rather than a private seller. And just for the record, the payment for this tax stamp needs to be in the form of a payment to the BATFE, not the IRS.

Whether or not the gun shop owner will help you with this is just up to him. Some will, some won’t. Along with the Form 4 and your check for $200, you need to submit a fingerprint card, a couple of passport photgraphs, and the signature of a “Chief law enforcement officer.” This can be anyone like the local chief of police, county sheriff, or even certain local judges. This signature is obtained on the Form 4. The fingerprint cards will go to the FBI for a background investigation. Once the investigation is complete, the Form 4 will be approved and sent back to the class III dealer who will notify you that you can pick up your weapon.

Just for the record, everything above is the EASY part. The hard part is writing that check for $10,000.

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