People come into my office every week with a stack of unopened letters from the IRS.  If those are fresh letters it is not a big problem.  But, I see people with months of unopened letters.  The IRS in almost all situations tells you in advance what they are going to do before doing it.  Read more about Open Your IRS and FTB Mail — Not Having Enough Money To Pay Not Good Excuse[…]

In California, same sex couples who were married or Registered Domestic Partners could file married filing joint tax returns going back to 2006. The IRS, following 1996 Federal DOMA, would not allow same sex couples to recognize their relationships at all until a 2012 IRS ruling allowing them to go back to 2008 and amend Read more about US Supreme Court Rulings on DOMA and Prop 8 Time to Amend Same Sex Couples Tax Returns[…]