So I've read at least a dozen times on Reddit that, "The IRS will NEVER call you, 100% of the time if you get a call from the IRS saying you are being audited it's a scam."
Well, I got one of these calls recently. I remembered the countless posts I've seen saying the IRS never starts an audit by phone call. So, thinking I was outsmarting the caller, I asked for their name and what IRS office they were working out of. I told them I'd call them back.
Welp, much to my disappointment, I called my local IRS office, asked for the auditor, and was connected to the same person.
The auditor said they are under deadlines to get audits completed and that normally I would have received a certified letter first.
I thought I would just post this as an FYI. I'd hate to see someone cursing out the caller only to realize they just offended the actual IRS. On the other hand though, I've received far more scam calls from people saying they are the IRS than I have from the actual IRS. I would at a minimum recommend doing what I did- take their name and call them back after looking up the IRS contact info for your local office online.
Submitted October 05, 2021 at 09:15AM by Grandmaster_Bee https://ift.tt/3lc3rV3
