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Consumer Advice

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1. You might try the Taxpayer Advocate or your local office

Tue Jul 24, 2018, 04:36 PM

Jul 2018

Taxpayer Advocate: https://www.irs.gov/advocate/local-taxpayer-advocate

Local IRS office: https://www.irs.gov/help/contact-your-local-irs-office

It IS so frustrating trying to get a real person on the phone at the IRS. A few websites purport to tell you how to do it, but I imagine that things change all the time. You can google "live person" and IRS

Here's one: https://removeandreplace.com/2016/09/12/irs-1800-phone-numbers-how-to-speak-with-a-live-irs-person-fast/

ETA: I forgot to say, I've had luck calling my local office first thing in the morning (as in, as soon as the office opens, to the minute)

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IRS Late Refund and can't contact them [View all] bucolic_frolic Jul 2018 OP

You might try the Taxpayer Advocate or your local office More_Cowbell Jul 2018 #1

Thanks More_Cowbell bucolic_frolic Jul 2018 #2

Do you file on paper? k8conant Jul 2018 #3

Yes I paper file bucolic_frolic Jul 2018 #4