Audit Letter From IRSWho is allowed to speak

Read Copies are not a voice

A document request wants paper. You can gather it, we can order it, and a reply can go out with you approving every page. That work is here. A page that requires representation, a power to speak in an examination, or a voice in an appeal is a different job. It belongs to people who are allowed to hold it. We are not those people, and we will not borrow the costume.

The kind thing is to say that in the first conversation, not after you have paid for a file that cannot walk into the room. The file can still be built. Closed months, the return, the copies, the cost records. Whoever speaks will ask for that stack anyway. Building it is not the same as speaking.

Owners hate this split because it feels like being handed off. It is a limit, and limits are how you avoid a bigger mess. The disclosures page states the full line about what is signed here and what goes to a firm allowed to sign reports. This page is the short version beside a notice. The long version is the one that governs.

Read How you will hear it

We look at the notice number and the sentence that names the right to speak. If the page lets you answer, we say so and we start the copies. If it does not, we say who you need and we stop at the file. You should not have to decode that from a brochure.

An owner on a frightening day still deserves a straight answer. We can give the answer. We cannot give the appearance in a hearing. If what you wanted was the books, the payroll setup, the statements, and the return, that work continues either way. The hearing is the piece that leaves the building. Form 2848 is how a person who may practice before the IRS is named. We will tell you when the page in your hand is asking for that person, and we will not sign the form as if we were that person.

Read why many pages are not examinations before you assume yours is the formal kind. Then read what the file holds so the person who does speak is not starting from a shoe box.