

Interactive version in the works: In addition to the updated tax map, TAS also is working to develop a fully interactive version of the subway map in the coming year.

Place your order by calling toll-free (800) 829-3676. The TAS also created a brief introduction video to its tax map.Īnd on Friday, July 12, you can order a hard copy printed map, officially titled IRS Publication 5341), which will be available next month. Then you can enlarge the pages and focus on the sections that interest, frustrate or terrify you.
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Other ways to follow the tax map: Because of its density, I suggest you download the PDF version of the new tax map. Those associated steps are back in the new map. The tax code's complexity and number of steps at each stage prompted original tax map makers to simplify certain processes by omitting multiple sub-steps and detours that in some situations can be significant. This latest version expands on the earlier tax maps, notes TAS. That's where the TAS map, shown below, starts in our tax system with the preparation of taxpayer returns.įrom there, where you'll get answers to tax law questions, you and the tax system map wind your way through returns processing (the lighter green line), IRS examination via either routine reviews or audits of returns (orange), appeals (purple), collection (red), litigation (blue) and, for some, private debt collection (aqua). Green means go for your taxes: You can start your route along the tax map on, fittingly, the dark green line. "Thus, the digital roadmap will be a powerful tool to improve access to justice." If only taxpayers who are represented by tax professionals have access to that knowledge, then we do not have a fair and just tax system," says Olson. "It is my firm belief that taxpayers must have knowledge about their rights within a bureaucracy as complex as the IRS. Olson hopes the new Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) map will help taxpayers become personally more comfortable moving through the tax system. "As you can see from its numerous twists and turns, the road to tax compliance isn't always easy to navigate." "It shows the complexity of tax administration, with its connections and overlaps and repetitions between stages," says Olson. Olson also notes that the illustrated route of a taxpayer's journey through the tax system can be complicated. Olson, who will be retiring from her post at the end of this month, acknowledges that, referring to the new visual as a subway map. Traveling the tax route with new map: Those memories came back today when I looked at the Taxpayer Advocate Service's new taxpayer roadmap.ĭespite the name, it's definitely got a subway system feel and layout. Still, I remember picking up my first Metro map and deciding where we would go next without having to worry about parking. Metro, even though when we arrived there in 1981, its routes were somewhat limited. Suddenly, as the "On the Town" opening song goes, we were riding in a hole in the ground. The hubby and I came from a part of the country where cars (OK, trucks) were, and still are, the predominant way to get around. One of the key differences was transportation. Moving from West Texas to Washington, D.C., was a revelation for many reasons. (Photo by Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority) Washington, D.C., subway car awaiting Red Line passengers.
