For US Taxpayers in Brazil -- Taxpayer Advocate Service Event 09/25/23

abthree Brazil Expert

Member since 28 December 2017

abthreeBrazil Expert24 August 2023 21:13:28

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The Taxpayer Advocate Service, a group within the IRS that assists taxpayers having difficulties in solving problems with the Agency, is conducting a free International Taxpayer Online Problem Solving Day on Monday, September 25, 2023.

You can find more information about the Taxpayer Advocate Service, about the event, and about registering for it here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio … tdtcreator

Thanks to American Citizens Abroad (www.americansabroad.org) for spreading the word on this event.

mberigan Serial expat

Member since 21 January 2020

mberiganSerial expat28 August 2023 12:52:37

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The event announcement has a date and time but not a mention of the time zone. So I looked for more on the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) and found an IRS page (https://www.irs.gov/advocate/taxpayer-advocacy-panel) which has a "Contact TAP at our website" link to http://www.improveirs.org/ which states:

This site can’t be reachedwww.improveirs.org refused to connect.

Try:

Checking the connection

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

That pretty much sums up my sense of futility in getting competent services while living abroad.

abthree Brazil Expert

Member since 28 December 2017

abthreeBrazil Expert28 August 2023 14:43:26

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08/28/23 @mberigan. Good morning, Matt! I think that the link on the IRS site is bad. A websearch gave me this URL:

https://www.improveirs.org/

Which connected for me, with my VPN connected or not.

The timestamp for the event certainly could have been clearer, but I read the "-04" in "Monday, September 25 · 1 - 4pm -04" as meaning "1-4 PM UTC-04" , or Eastern Daylight Time.