Please President Biden, Hire Some Temps for the IRS
I know most of you (and I as well, most of the time) are perfectly happy to have the IRS just shut down. Unfortunately, when one runs a business, there are certain things that have to be done through the IRS, particularly when setting up or reorganizing a new business. One of my companies made a pro forma request (a subchapter S election) in a request to the IRS dated August 4. Today, on May 27, I received the one page confirmation that it had been processed. Unfortunately, I requested the IRS do some more critical things in December, and I am now worried that if there is a FIFO queue then I may have to wait another 4+ months for these to be completed. The worst of these is we changed our name, and we submitted the change to the IRS to update our FEIN records. Unfortunately, every time we try to open a bank account or a do a state registration they come back and deny our application because right now the IRS computer shows a mismatch with our FEIN and our new name. It takes hours and scads of paperwork to explain what is going on every time, making even the smallest things really hard to do.
