{"id":13264,"date":"2015-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/beware-of-irs-home-repair-frauds\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:00:00","slug":"beware-of-irs-home-repair-frauds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/beware-of-irs-home-repair-frauds\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of IRS, home repair frauds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people I talk to about their IRS problem have already built the worst-case scenario in their head. The reality is usually much more manageable. I&#039;m Darrin Mish, and I&#039;ve been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Here&#039;s what actually tends to happen.<\/p>\n<p>www.herald-citizen.com \u2014 As the saying goes, spring is the time when a young man\u2019s fancy turns to thoughts of love.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it\u2019s also the time when some people with criminal intent turn to thoughts of IRS\u2008or home repair fraud, and several incidents of the former have been reported here already.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been several attempted IRS\u2008frauds reported in the county recently,\u201d said Major Terry Hembree, director of criminal investigations at the Putnam County Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herald-citizen.com\/newsx\/item\/8186-beware-of-irs-home-repair-frauds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beware of IRS, home repair frauds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-news\/\">IRS News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_map_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_address_compat show-address show-address-only\"><div class=\"rank-math-contact-section rank-math-contact-address\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"rank-math-contact-info wpseo_opening_hours_compat\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people I talk to about their IRS problem have already built the worst-case scenario in their head. The reality is usually much more manageable. I&#039;m Darrin Mish, and I&#039;ve been representing taxpayers before the IRS for 32 years. Here&#039;s what actually tends to happen. www.herald-citizen.com \u2014 As the saying goes, spring is the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22511,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13264\/revisions\/22511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}