[gearinga]

I filed my 2005 & 2006 fed income tax and I have been audited for charitable contributions. Each year I give over and beyond in charitable contributions and the IRS only let you claim so much each year, so the overage is carried over to the next year. When I filed I was asked to provide proof of cancelled checks front and back so I did also for the previous years to prove the overage which was filed from the previous year. The are giving me a hard time in letting me claim the overage foe the previous year and it's there law. I went to their office on yesterday and was turned away because they only had two persons working. Called on yesterday and talked to 4 different persons before going to their office. The want me to pay them and are sending me demanding letter to pay. When I talk to other companies concerning this matter they want to charge me 2 or 3 thousand dollars to resolve this issue. I do not owe this money and I need to know my nest step. Please help before they levy wages and property for no reason. You can only go to one or two offices to walk in in the metro atlanta office.

[gearinga]

Can u tell me about this form and what happens after you file it with the IRS

[AtlantaTaxExpert]

Gearinga:

The IRS often will NOT accept cancelled checks as proof of charitable contributions because, oftentime, the checks are actually payment for products and/or services that happen to be made out to a charitable organization.

However, if you actually donated this money in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and the amount was so high that it exceeded the legal deduction amount, it should NOT be too hard to get a formal receipt or letter of acknowledgement from the charity in question.

Charities have very stringent accounting requirements for the contributions they receive, so they should have records that you gave this money, even 4 years after the fact.

Call the charity and see what they can do for you.

Once you have these acknowledgement documents (and assuming that the charity IS RECOGNIZED by the IRS as a legitimate charity), you can then take these documents to the next meeting with the IRS and resolve this problem with relative ease.