{"id":1301,"date":"2016-08-11T17:41:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2016-08-11T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:46:09","slug":"the-irs-always-sends-letters-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"The IRS Always Sends A Bill First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/safety-first-283x300.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1004\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/safety-first-283x300.png\" alt=\"safety-first-283x300\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Recently there has been a rash of phone scams concerning taxes. \u00a0Many people have paid money over the phone, believing that they would be in trouble with the US government if they did not. \u00a0As a certified public accountant, I wanted to make sure you understand that the IRS will always send you a letter\u00a0first. \u00a0They do not make cold calls demanding money. \u00a0Please read this article to better inform yourself\u00a0about the scams currently in play, and remember that the IRS will not call you, they will send a bill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/uac\/newsroom\/phone-scams-continue-to-be-a-serious-threat-remain-on-irs-dirty-dozen-list-of-tax-scams-for-the-2016-filing-season\">Phone Scams Continue to be a Serious Threat, Remain on IRS \u201cDirty Dozen\u201d List of Tax Scams for the 2016 Filing Season<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently there has been a rash of phone scams concerning taxes. \u00a0Many people have paid money over the phone, believing that they would be in trouble with the US government if they did not. \u00a0As a certified public accountant, I wanted to make sure you understand that the IRS will always send you a letter\u00a0first. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1301\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The IRS Always Sends A Bill First<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[705,702,69,704,96,701,706,703,201],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-taxes","tag-cold-calls","tag-demanding","tag-irs","tag-mailing","tag-money","tag-phone-scam","tag-tax","tag-tax-bill","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}