Live Tax Help

Chat about taxes? Why on earth would anyone want to do that. What a horrible, terrifying subject. Why not just chat about cancer or AIDs or other topics equally uncheerful ... assuming you can think of any.

If that's your attitude about chatting on the subject of taxes, you're way out of step with the rest of the world. Chatting, as in online Live Chat, has become a global obsession, right up there with Facebooking and following your betters around cyberspace with your nose up their Twittering behinds.

So, considering the fact that you can receive real honest-to-Internal-Revenue-Service help with filing your taxes via the wonderful work of live chat, what are waiting for ... an engraved invitation from the Secretary of the Treasury?

Live Chat Tax Help service is available at a number of venues both online and over the phone. In fact, even the Internal Revenue Service itself has trained tax agents manning several toll free hotlines available to taxpayers. For a list of current numbers, visit the Internal Revenue website at www.irs.gov.

Other live chat lines, which may have significantly shorter hold times during tax season, are available from non-governmental tax experts. Some, like "Tax Brain Live Tax Help" are offered free of charge, other chat services offered by any number of CPAs with an online presence are, like phone sex lines, priced by the minute.

Most free live tax help lines are geared answering specific questions regarding federal income taxes rather than general questions about the tax codes, state or local tax issues, capital gains taxes, property taxes and other tax topics not related to earned income. Common questions that come into these sites involve things like the dependent status of 18-21 year-old children attending college and how to calculate medical expense writeoffs.

The pay-for-play live tax help lines, especially those affiliated with a certified public accountant, are usually more broadly focused and amiable about listening to questions about everything from the tax status of Native Americans to the estimated taxable value of the 300 vinyl LPs you inherited from Aunt Nellie. on the other hand. But then, it is in their best interest to be open to anything since the longer you talk the more of your money they collect.

vinnie said:

I need to know the number that slaps you with the alternative minmum tax and restricts other deductions such as dependents

Danielle said:

Where can I find the tax exemption codes or state/public laws that state non-gaming tribal per capitas can not be claimed or even calculated into monthly income??

barbara said:

where can I find my ein?