December 5, 2008, Newsletter Issue #92: Interest Abatement Request

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You are allowed to request an interest abatement whenever you have had interest applied to your account as a result of:

IRS error of a managerial or ministerial task (loss of paperwork, i.e.)IRS delay of a managerial or ministerial task (delay in processing, i.e.) You could not have caused any significant impact upon the error or delay. Also, you need to have received a Notice of Deficiency containing the interest amount in order to request the interest abatement.

Form. To request the interest abatement, you will need to fill out IRS Form 843. Across the top of the form, you will write “Request for Abatement of Interest Under Section 6404(e)”.

On Line 5 you will put:

Circumstances of your casePeriod to which the interest appliesType of tax involvedTime you first notified by the IRS of the deficiency or interest due Reason why not having the interest abated would be grossly unfair to you

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