There is good news for anyone worried about an IRS audit. You can now demand that your audit be conducted in any language of your choosing.
Clinton Executive Order 13166 effectively required all government agencies to provide translations into any language on demand. This sweeping linguistic mandate even applies to the IRS, an agency notorious for its inability to accurately answer taxpayer questions posed in English.
The IRS answered just 51% of the telephone calls it received during 1999 and "studies have shown that IRS telephone advice is incorrect as often as 40 percent of the time."
A new $75.6 million IRS telephone system that will answer calls in both English and Spanish is still a violation of the U.S. Department of the Treasury E.O. 13166 regulations issued last year. These regulations require the IRS to be ready to answer telephone inquiries in any of the 231 languages spoken somewhere in the United States.
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