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Help! I received a letter from the IRS last night claiming that I under-reported my income by $12,830 in 2011. They're now demanding that I pay a significant amount in taxes, interest, and penalties against that $12,830. The problem is, I didn't under report. I have my W-2s showing that the income I claimed is the income I received, and I have deposit records for all of my payroll checks (but those, of course, would not necessarily PROVE anything, as they are less taxes and insurance payments). What I do NOT have is a complete record of pay stubs. Somewhere in the move to the new house those documents got lost in the shuffle.
The paperwork says that the discrepancy is specific to income from one of the two employers I had that year. Would a notarized letter from my payroll department listing my total gross income and tax deductions for 2011 suffice to prove that any additional reporting submitted to the IRS is false? My assumption is that the payroll department either applied somebody else's payments to my SSN or the payroll company that processes our checks screwed up.
The paperwork says that the discrepancy is specific to income from one of the two employers I had that year. Would a notarized letter from my payroll department listing my total gross income and tax deductions for 2011 suffice to prove that any additional reporting submitted to the IRS is false? My assumption is that the payroll department either applied somebody else's payments to my SSN or the payroll company that processes our checks screwed up.