| Getting a hold of a past federal tax return isn't a | | | | idea can wait another year, or that your kid gets a lot |
| problem most of us expect to have. Usually when we | | | | of college scholarships. I mean, sure those things can |
| file our taxes, that's it--we send them off to the IRS | | | | wait for your past federal tax return to show up in the |
| and hope to never, ever think about them again. It's not | | | | mail, six months later and missing a page. It's not like |
| an experience most of us want to relive. | | | | those things are important. |
| Unfortunately, life doesn't work that way. Mortgages, | | | | So you could do that or you could get in touch with |
| small business loans, and other credit agencies don't | | | | some professionals-the kind who care about not |
| work that way either. In fact, many of them demand a | | | | wasting your time and money. The kind who will work |
| past federal tax return before they'll even give you | | | | quickly and efficiently on your behalf. Because the truth |
| money. Oh boy. What's an average tax payer to do, | | | | of the matter is, you're not going to need your past |
| especially when time is of the essence? | | | | federal tax return very often. It might only come up |
| Well, you could always contact the IRS and ask them | | | | once or twice in your whole life. But when you do |
| to help you out. Since they're trying to be transparent | | | | need it, you're going to need it fast! And dealing with |
| and streamline the bureaucracy, it should only take you | | | | people who know how to get them fast is a better |
| a few months to get a hold of the form that allows | | | | option than the headache of the government. |
| you to request to see your own past federal tax | | | | Fortunately, there are websites and companies |
| return. And then a few more months while you wait | | | | devoted just to the issue of past taxes. Their job is to |
| around to actually get them in your mailbox. | | | | make sure that your past federal tax return is in your |
| And it'll be $50 per form. Thank you very much, Uncle | | | | hands as soon as possible. Because when you need |
| Sam. | | | | something--when large amounts of money and work |
| You could do that and hope that your dream home | | | | are going into something--hoping the IRS speeds up |
| doesn't go to another owner, that your brilliant business | | | | probably won't cut it. |