IRS Can't Do The Math

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 IRS centers established to help people prepare their tax returns gave incorrect answers - or no answer at all - to 43 percent of the questions asked by Treasury Department investigators posing as taxpayers.

The investigators concluded that half a million taxpayers may have been given wrong information between July and December 2002.

Service varied widely by state, with some of the best in the Northeast and some of the worst in the Midwest and Plains.

Auditors were given correct answers to 57 percent of their tax law questions during the course of the study. Less than half, or 45 percent, of the questions were answered correctly and completely. In 12 percent of the cases, the answer was correct but incomplete.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/04/national/main571632.shtml

I asked them about a Limited Patnership investment and some tax rules and they had no idea. Even after talking to 5-6 agents. That's when I could get through. I want a refund on the money dumped into the IRS pit!