Have you ever wished there was a way to access prerecorded tax information 24 hours a day, seven days a week? Who hasn’t, right? Well, good news: there is a way, and it’s called Teletax.
Teletax is an IRS-provided, fully automated call-in service that has bajillions of prerecorded messages on over 150 different tax topics. Imagine how many hours could be whiled away listening to IRS messages on 150 tax topics. Forget Netflix binging—we know what we’re doing next weekend.
But Teletax isn’t just for random pre-recorded tax messages. We can also use it to check the status of our own taxes, like learning when that refund is going to show up in our account, or finding out what that scary-sounding IRS letter we got last week means.
So...not only is it entertaining and educational, it can also be super useful. All we have to do is call in—the number is 800-829-1040, which is pretty clever—and we can choose from a plethora of topics by entering a three-digit code between 100 and 999. The IRS’s website has a list of all the Teletax topics and their codes, if anyone’s looking to get organized before next weekend’s Teletax binge.
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Finance allah shmoop What is the i r s Well
i rest might be the three most hated letters in
the alphabet Well after d m v a pms and
well maybe std The i r s is the internal
revenue service Their internal i e inside the government they're
in charge of collecting revenue A k a They take
money from your pocket in the form of taxes and
they deliver it to uncle sam and they you know
service you and it doesn't feel good So yeah these
are the guys from the us treasury department who checked
to make sure you filled out your income tax forms
correctly and submitted the proper amount And if you screwed
up in any way they will let you know about
it and a half in the form of angry letters
Phone calls knocks on your front door rocks through your
back window Whatever it takes to get you to pay
your fair share of taxes Like why should you get
away with not paying when the jones has paid all
they owed Or the irs can do even worse and
audit you with an audit he irs will request extensive
and very specific information and records from you Paycheck deductions
all kinds of things You claim that you did that
were deductible that may or may not have been forcing
you to spend hours upon hours at your public storage
unit digging through boxes you hoped and prayed you'd never
see again Well after the third solid week of having
your financial history poked and prodded like you've had to
turn your head and cough you uh might actually be
ready and willing to trade in those three letters of 00:01:35.13 --> [endTime] irs for rough one of those stds instead