I have a college classmate who has stayed in touch over the years. When our
kids were young, we used to vacation together. He is a high-ranking career
IRS man. He has confirmed to me any number of times that whenever the IRS
launches a new fishing expedition, which happens frequently, they use only
efiled returns. The details are so much more accessible and sortable, you
see. I'm taking his word for it; he paper files his own return.
Chuck
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From: taxchat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:taxchat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Ann Von Hagel
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:23 PM
To: taxchat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: e-filing, was Re: [taxchat] Mailing tax returns
That's what I tell my clients. Essentially, all returns are
electronically filed since the IRS does not process returns by hand. So
the question becomes, do you want to mail it in and have some temp who
knows nothing about taxes copying numbers into a data terminal, or do
you want me to send it directly from my computer to theirs knowing that
what they'll get is exactly what you see on my screen. I've explained
it that way to some folks who kind of had an epiphany. Sometimes I ask
them first how they think returns are processed. The more complex the
return, the better this argument is.
Ann Von Hagel, EA
Arlington, VA
Debbie Breedlove wrote:
>
> I don't see a difference. When you mail a return, an IRS employee
> enters everything from the return into their computer. If they are
> data mining, they have the data either way. When you efile the
> return, it just eliminates that step because the info from the return
> goes right into their computer. I prefer efiling because it
> eliminates the possibility of some temp employee making an error when
> doing the data entry.
>
>
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