Tax Articles

When calling to these IRS help line number, you may ask questions to help you to prepare tax return, or ask about a notice you have received.

IRS Tax Help Line for Individuals
Toll-Free, 1-800-829-1040
Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. your local time (Alaska & Hawaii follow Pacific Time).

IRS Tax Help Line Refund Hotline
Toll-Free, 1-800-829-1954
NOTE: The “Where’s My Refund?” automated self-service feature is also available 24/7 to obtain refund status information.

IRS Tax Help Line for Forms and Publications
Toll-Free, 1800-829-3676

IRS Tax Help Line for Business and Specialty
Toll-Free, 1-800-829-4933
Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. your local time (Alaska & Hawaii follow Pacific Time).

Tax Exempt – Government Entity (TEGE) IRS Help Line
Toll-Free, 1-877-829-5500
Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday,  7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Central Time.

IRS Help Line for people with hearing impairments – Telephone Device for the Deaf (TDD)
Toll-Free 1-800-829-4059 (TDD)
Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. your local time (Alaska & Hawaii follow Pacific Time).

IRS Help Line for Individuals who believe they may be a victim of Identify Theft: No Tax Administration Impact – Did not receive a notice from the IRS.
Toll-Free, 1-800-908-4490 (Automated and live assistance)
Hours of Operation: Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. your local time (Alaska & Hawaii follow Pacific Time).

National Taxpayer Advocate’s Help Line
Toll-Free, 1-877-777-4778

Electronic Federal Tax Payment System (EFTPS) Hotline
1-800-555-4477 or 1-800-945-8400

Tele Tax line System
1-800-829-4477
Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Extension to File Tele-File System
1-8888-796-1074
For individual filers who want to submit an Extension to File for a 1040-series return via telephone.

Tax season is here again. It is one of the most dreaded period of the year for some of us. The process could indeed be taxing. There are cases when people would run into problems with IRS, even if you are already filing your own return for a long time. Common tax problems could start [...]

With spring bulbs sprouting and flowering trees in blossom, spring is one of my favorite seasons. However, there’s a good-news bad-news aspect we can’t ignore. The bad news is that it’s also tax season. I sometimes wonder if Mother Nature didn’t brighten the view out of the window to provide a little cheeriness to the [...]

Each April 15th when the tax man comes knocking (not literally) millions of Americans scramble to get their returns filed on time. The lines are long at the Post Offices but not as long as they used to be in the days before filing over the internet became available. Now all you need to do [...]

It isn’t so much that people mind the money they lose to the government as taxes. It is the hoops they have to jump through to do it, what with all the forms, the calculations the tax codes, and the itemizing for every single deduction. Well, the IRS allows certain people, people who come under [...]

On the news, they keep announcing all the gains that are being made in America over the course of the much-applauded recovery; companies are supposed to be turning out better profits, and companies are supposed to be generously adding to their jobs rosters all the time. Even so, compared to how many people are unemployed [...]

If you work in an office, retail establishment, or other job in which you get a steady paycheck, you probably do not have to worry about income tax planning. As long as you have your dependents and your exemptions set correctly, your company should take out enough money each week to have your taxes paid [...]

I know that in order to get the most out of my money, I need to make it work for me. That means investing in something that will generate a decent rate of return. The problem is that I’m extremely risk-averse. I do not want to lose my initial investment, and am willing to accept [...]

It seems to happen to everyone: they prepare their tax return, put in every IRS tax deduction they can think of and file their return. Ten days later, someone tells them about some tax deduction that they could have taken advantage of if they had only known about it. And they are kicking themselves for [...]

Anyone would love to get their IRS tax refund as early as possible. This is what you need to do to stop dreaming and actually get about getting it done. Most people find it hard to get their IRS tax refund in a timely manner because they keep putting off the actual paperwork. People just [...]

Let’s say that you wish to finally take the plunge: the job market is terrible, you’ve keep hearing about how everyone needs to go back to school and learn new skills for a new world, and you’re finally going to do it; as unpleasant as the whole scenario seems. It could be expensive of course. [...]