How To Contact The IRS Without Breaking Into A Sweat
We all love to criticize the IRS, don’t we? It’s easy to ridicule a huge organization of government bureaucrats who often seem to be Public Enemy #1.
Our negative attitude toward the IRS can lead to a strong desire to just ignore it altogether. But
self-employed people who ignore the IRS do so at their own peril.
So when it comes to providing free information about taxes, let’s not throw the baby out with the bath water. The IRS does provide some excellent resources to help us make the best of a potentially bad situation.
If you need tax assistance and prefer not to pay for it, do not overlook these five ways to obtain help from the IRS:
1. The Internet
http://www.irs.gov
There’s a wealth of information just for small business owners and self-employed people at: http://www.irs.gov/smallbiz
Here you’ll find everything from how to obtain a federal business tax ID to a free 6-session streaming video presentation of the “IRS Small Business Workshop.” Also known as the Small Business Self-Employed Online Classroom, you can...