Dissension in the Ranks: COIC vs Appeals.
Just a note to you bloggers about a little new information I was able to squeeze out of an Offer Examiner today. There is apparently some dissension in the ranks and some inter agency dispute going on. I have been blogging about how the COIC is using every technique that middle management can come up with to reject or return an offer. It appears that the Offer examiners are being coached to encourage a taxpayer to withdraw their offer once the Examiner has found some excuse to reject the offer. Once an Offer Examiner finds a reason or excuse to reject an offer the taxpayer has two choices. Withdraw the offer or take an appeal.
Now with the COIC using every flimsy excuse they can find to reject an offer the number of rejections are up and the number of acceptances are down. This also means that for those few taxpayers brave enough to not follow the urgings of the Offer Examiner, more appeals are being taken from offer rejections. Therefore there are more offer appeals being taken than the Appeals office was counting on.
So the word from the ranks of Offer Examiners is that they are beginning to resent the loss of some of their discretion. They have also started to complain that the software they use to evaluate an offer often returns some absurd results creating improvident rejections of good offers. This little dissension has caused many sympathetic Offer Examiners to encourage the taxpayer to take an appeal rather than follow the party line and encourage the taxpayer to voluntarily withdraw the offer. Consequently the number of appeals has apparently soared and the guys and girls at Appeals management are wanting to know what the problem is. Some high level meetings have taken place in the last few weeks and apparently some changes are being made to the software to allow the Offer Examiner a little more discretion to override absurd results returned by the computer program. Has Appeals had their last say? I wish I knew how I could find out. Have any ideas? Send me your suggestions.
Now with the COIC using every flimsy excuse they can find to reject an offer the number of rejections are up and the number of acceptances are down. This also means that for those few taxpayers brave enough to not follow the urgings of the Offer Examiner, more appeals are being taken from offer rejections. Therefore there are more offer appeals being taken than the Appeals office was counting on.
So the word from the ranks of Offer Examiners is that they are beginning to resent the loss of some of their discretion. They have also started to complain that the software they use to evaluate an offer often returns some absurd results creating improvident rejections of good offers. This little dissension has caused many sympathetic Offer Examiners to encourage the taxpayer to take an appeal rather than follow the party line and encourage the taxpayer to voluntarily withdraw the offer. Consequently the number of appeals has apparently soared and the guys and girls at Appeals management are wanting to know what the problem is. Some high level meetings have taken place in the last few weeks and apparently some changes are being made to the software to allow the Offer Examiner a little more discretion to override absurd results returned by the computer program. Has Appeals had their last say? I wish I knew how I could find out. Have any ideas? Send me your suggestions.
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