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Taxpayer Advocate Service Reaches Out to Small Businesses
Recent outreach efforts by the Taxpaxer Advocate Service (TAS) have focused on small business operators in the trucking business. Trucking firm owner-operators are prototypical small business owners. TAS outreach information has great value for all small business owners-operators. As National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson said in releasing her June report to Congress, "It is the role of the Taxpayer Advocate Service employees to advocate on behalf of all taxpayers."

Small Business/Self-Employed campus taxpayer advocate Joe Budd has many ongoing outreach campaigns to reach over-the-road truck drivers. The message would be the same for all small business operators. "Many of the truckers still think of themselves as truck drivers, not operators of a business," said Budd. "Many do not have a tax professional or even a bookkeeper." This is the norm for many, if not most, small businesses.

All small business owner-operators need to know that TAS can help resolve difficulties with the IRS if their cases meet the following TAS criteria:

•  the taxpayer is suffering or about to suffer a significant hardship;
  
  
•  the taxpayer is facing an immediate threat of adverse action;
  
  
•  the taxpayer will incur significant costs if relief is not granted;
  
  
•  the taxpayer will suffer irreparable injury, or long-term adverse impact if relief is not granted;
  
  
•  the taxpayer experiences a delay of more than 30 days past normal processing time;
  
  
•  the taxpayer nas not received a response or resolution by the date promised; or
  
  
•  if systems or procedures have failed to work as intended or failed to resolve the taxpayer's problem or dispute.

Whether or not you are an independent small business owner who happens to own and drive a truck, TAS may be able to help you overcome unresolved tax problems and help your small business. TAS is not a substitute for established IRS procedures or the formal Appeals process. For more information about TAS visit the IRS website and follow the link to TAS.

Top 10 Ways to Know You've Been Working Too Much

10. You keep calling your daughter "dependent #3."

9. A "candlelight dinner" means you forgot to turn your monitor off.

8. You've got a razor, toothbrush and deodorant in your Daytimer.

7. A "workout" means you forgot something in your car and had to go get it.

6. Your family begins to refer to you as "that man."

5. Your coworkers won't come within 20 feet of your office, but you think it smells like your mother's home cooking.

4. You gave your son a 10-key for his birthday.

3. A "weekend" has become the time when you back up your hard drive.

2. Your spouse calls your voicemail just to say "hello."

And . . .

1. When your mother-in-law left on Sunday, you tried to report a capital gain on your tax return.