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IRS screwing up addresses. Heads up

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December 6, 2023
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A couple of days ago business client texted me correspondence from the Internal Revenue Service where they screwed up and change the mailing address. Yesterday another business client emailed to me the same thing. The letter says we updated your mailing address in our records because the address entered on a tax return was different from the one in our records. But this is absolutely not true, the addresses were not changed by us anywhere. They erroneously changed the following on both: Instead of any "Anytown, PA 12345" they changed it to: "West Anytown, PA 12345".

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Best answer by rbynaker

Sounds like a zip code database issue.

Many zip codes have multiple city names. Plug the zip code into the USPS database and see if both names come up:

https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?citybyzipcode

I'm guessing either the tax software or the IRS database is "correcting" the city name based on automatically picking one name from the list. See 22102 as a good example of one zip code with four names.

Rick

IRonMaN

Level 15

That isn't new news. The have been doing that for a few years now. I have received a few of those little letters personally (along with a few clients), but it's been a little bit since the last one showed up. They would make a microscopic change to the address and alert me to that fact.

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PATAXAuthor

Level 12

Yeah you're right in the past they did things like change Road to Rd and then claim it was an address change. But this one is a little bit different, they added something to the name of the town that isn't there for clients. Unbelievable.

IRonMaN

Level 15

They are updating the addresses like that to throw Santa Claus off. The IRS doesn't want anyone to get anything other than a lump of coal for Christmas.

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rbynakerAnswer

Level 13

Sounds like a zip code database issue.

Many zip codes have multiple city names. Plug the zip code into the USPS database and see if both names come up:

https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm?citybyzipcode

I'm guessing either the tax software or the IRS database is "correcting" the city name based on automatically picking one name from the list. See 22102 as a good example of one zip code with four names.

Rick

PATAXAuthor

Level 12

Thanks Rick. I think you are right. The recommended city name on that website is the correct one, but under other names the incorrect one appears. Why the IRS decided now to use the incorrect one, after using the correct one for all these years, is beyond me. It is their responsibility to use the correct name that is listed on the tax returns. Between them, Pennsylvania, and local, it appears that I am being swamped with nonsense notices. I can remember years ago, I could go a whole year without any type of notice like this for all clients. It's getting to be a big joke, and all these politicians claim that they are for small businesses.

IRonMaN

Level 15

It's just another case of computers doing all of the thinking instead of a human being looking at things to see if it makes sense. Artificial intelligence is taking over -------------- and I am referring to the politicians now. We elect people that are dumber than a box of rocks, but they get up on their soap box and ramble on to pretend that they are intelligent.

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garman22

Intuit Community Champion

I also received same letter stating a tax return or form 8822 shows different address.

I tried calling but was disconnected several times. As of now its on the wait and see method.

PITA!!!

PATAXAuthor

Level 12

That's why I use the four digit ZIP code extension on everything that I can. The IRS included that four digit ZIP code extension in their letters to my clients, and that will usually ensure that the post office delivers it to the right address in my aforementioned circumstances.

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