One key tip when calling the IRS

Did you ever want to be able to actually talk to someone “in the know” at the Internal Revenue Service? Well, here it is: a list of IRS phone numbers and web site links designed to give you the answers you need. It is quite an extensive list.

I only have one caveat: stay away from the dreaded (800) 829-1040. This is the general call number for the IRS and is staffed by those with only a general knowledge in tax matters. So, stick to the more directed numbers.

Glenna Mae is an Enrolled Agent, a specialist in income taxes. 

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Glenna Mae Hendricks. She is an entrepreneur and income tax consultant, so we get lots of good tax tips from her. She is an oenophile (“look that up in your Funk and Wagnall’s,” she says), and a wine enjoyment teacher/guide who also writes wine notes at the Allen’s Retail Liquors site. Her political thoughts (and occasional outbursts of domesticity) appear at Old Feminist and Wild-eyed Liberal.

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