Just got confirmation from a client of mine that he got a letter from the IRS stating that a tax issue from 2012 is FINALLY resolved. It's only taken almost 2 years of correspondences, corrections, phone calls, and even a meeting with an IRS agent to resolve it! Now, I usually try to assure clients of mine that the IRS really isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things, as they are simply the enforcement and collection division for what Congress decides to be the tax code and that they are actually MUCH more reasonable than a lot of the state and city tax divisions I have to deal with regularly. That said, when I finally heard back from this guy that things were resolved this is how I felt...