Congrats on getting the case resolved, and on finally
getting someone at the IRS to help. They are the exception
rather than the rule.

The paperwork you sent in may or may not have been lost.

When the IRS gets more work than they can handle, they
resort to throwing away letters from taxpayers. That way,
they can claim they never got a response and close the case.
They can then show that they are working and closing alot of
cases, thereby pleasing Congress, and ask for more money to
catch those bad taxpayers.

I saw this happen on many ocassions in my 20 years at the
IRS in Austin TX.

Rudy
www.LizcanoTaxServicesLLC.com

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Some of you may perhaps recall some postings from last fall,
about W-7's in limbo on a 004 2return for someone with
Canadian-resident dependents.

After several rounds with the taxpayer advocate office and
TWO MORE sets of notarized documents (BOTH lost by the
mailroom in Philadelphia!!), and finally faxing over my
_copies_ of the notarized documents, we got the ITIN problem
resolved. My client got his 2004 refund issued on 4/21/06.
We extended him for 2005 (since we didn't get the ITIN's
until April 6th, and that was just by phone).

Thankfully, the very helpful gentleman at the Taxpayer
Advocate office was _finally_ able to get this resolved.
The only other way I could have seen to do it would have
been to carry documents to Philadelphia and walk them
through myself!

So, if anyone else runs into a similar problem, I know the
guy at the TA office to talk to....

Catherine

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