I’ve written on this blog before about how negotiating with the IRS is different than negotiating with Joe Blow down the street. They look into every situation possible and require documentation to backup our arguments and their final decisions.
Just in case you didn’t believe me, I thought I would share one of the IRS’ mottos with you:
“Service + Enforcement = Compliance.”
This motto was recently cited in a farewell e-mail to the employees of the IRS by their Commissioner, Mark Everson, who is leaving the IRS to head the American Red Cross. Clearly, their goal is compliance, but currently the Enforcement is making up a large part of the equation. Their reasoning is that this allows them to equally apply the tax laws across the board, rather than show some people favortism.
This further establishes my point that the IRS works off of numbers and equations. I thought you might get a kick out of the fact that the IRS mottos and taglines are all math related.