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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are afraid of audit, you can get audit protection from Turbotax.  I did that for the first time last year, and it was a pleasure to have their people dealing with the IRS rather than me.  The hardest part is getting to someone knowledgeable on the phone in less than ten hours--enrolled agents who do audit protection have much faster access.  [/quote]

Did your audit involve something more complicated than the "correspondence audit" described above?[/quote]

I have had correspondence audits in the past.  No big deal--pay the bill.  But in this case it was a much larger amount, $20,000, an amount we had paid that the IRS said we had not.  We had had the same problem earlier for tax year 2019 that took me ten hours on the phone, plus faxing in additional evidence, for the IRS to concede we had in fact paid the amounts.

Those ten hours resolved it, but didn't get to the root cause.  It turns out that DH was using the wrong form for filing estimated taxes, something he has been doing for over ten years. The TT audit defense people spotted immediately what the source of the problem was, we sent in evidence of payment to them, and they handled all the IRS end of things.  DH is now filing with the right form, so I hope that is the end of that.

So, yes, a correspondence audit, but one that would have taken me scores of hours with the IRS to resolve.  From that perspective, paying for audit defense was worth every penny.[/quote]

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