{"id":16314,"date":"2016-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/what-to-do-if-you-receive-a-letter-from-the-irs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:16:02","slug":"what-to-do-if-you-receive-a-letter-from-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/what-to-do-if-you-receive-a-letter-from-the-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Do if You Receive a Letter From the IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stop losing sleep over your tax situation. I&#039;m Darrin Mish \u2014 a tax attorney in Tampa who&#039;s spent 32 years handling exactly this kind of problem. Here&#039;s what you need to know.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number or reasons the IRS might send you a letter. While there\u2019s no need to panic, you should take the letter seriously and respond as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/category\/irs-problem\/\">Click here to read or watch more IRS Problem resources.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will likely get a letter from the IRS if you&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Have a balance due.<\/p>\n<p>You have a smaller or larger refund coming.<\/p>\n<p>You have a question concerning your tax return.<\/p>\n<p>Your identity needs to be verified.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS needs additional information for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>Something has been changed on your return.<\/p>\n<p>You are being notified there will be a delay in processing your return.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you need to do.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16315\" src=\"http:\/\/getirshelp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/infographic-131-What-to-Do-if-You-Receive-a-Letter-form-the-IRS.jpg\" alt=\"infographic-131 What to Do if You Receive a Letter form the IRS\" width=\"600\" height=\"2194\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Share this Image On Your Site<\/h3>\n<p><textarea style=\"width: 540px; height: 100px;\">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please include attribution to http:\/\/getirshelp.com\/ with this graphic.&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#8217;http:\/\/getirshelp.com\/what-to-do-if-you-receive-a-letter-form-the-irs\/&#8217;&gt;&lt;img src=&#8217;http:\/\/getirshelp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/infographic-131-What-to-Do-if-You-Receive-a-Letter-form-the-IRS.jpg&#8217; alt=&#8221; width=&#8217;600&#8242; border=&#8217;0&#8242; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;p&gt;<\/textarea><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop losing sleep over your tax situation. I&#039;m Darrin Mish \u2014 a tax attorney in Tampa who&#039;s spent 32 years handling exactly this kind of problem. Here&#039;s what you need to know. There are a number or reasons the IRS might send you a letter. While there\u2019s no need to panic, you should take the [&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":[592],"tags":[594],"class_list":["post-16314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-problem","tag-irs-forms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314","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=16314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22801,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16314\/revisions\/22801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}