European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 have a fax problem write to the irs theres an office that deals with special complaints by Clint Swift Washington Bureau Washington still waiting for your tax re fund Check tired of complaining to a computer a letter to the internal Revenue services problem Resolution program office May be your Best As the tax people Call is available to taxpayers overseas through the foreign operations District in but pro is not a substitute for using regular cautioned Susan pro offi cer for the the first step is to write the service Center where the return was for Apo and Fpo the service centers Are in Atlanta Fres and if you received a letter or notice from the use the address or phone number provided to the most common right times for contacting the pro Are when you Haven gotten your its at least 90 Days after you filed your and youve already contacted the irs when you asked for help or information More than 45 Days ago and you still Haven received an acknowledgement or a final when youve responded to a Billing but the irs has sent you a third or later meaning it took the wrong action or no action on your service members problems can be As simple As a wrong one wrong digit on an Apo address can mean a letter or Check returned As Nassar service members who live off Post in places such As Germany or where addresses can be quite different from american Are particularly she her advice is to learn what every line of the address Means so you get it the return address is All the irs has to work assignment changes in the just when re fund checks probably Are on their Way to also create she consider giving the irs the address of a relative if you know youre due for a permanent change of she said the first letter to the pro should contain a Short explanation of the including information on earlier attempts to Contact the she also needs copies of All forms and verifying Doc americans Irving abroad irs tax publications publication tax guide for americans irs publication a general explanation of an americans tax responsibilities while living publication foreign tax credit for citizens and resident a detailed look at this tax publication tax an explanation of tax benefits provided by some treaties with foreign publication information on income tax a guide to the recently ratified treaty affecting Ameri cans who want to work in other sources embassies and foreign ones can help americans learn about another country before leaving the while americans can Contact the embassy or consulate to get information about such As a list of the approximately 280 such offices the maintains around the key officers of foreign service available for from the superintendent of government printing Washington the overseas assignment directory covers 50 including up Odate information ranging from religion and government matters to business customs and housing availability and because of its service most often is purchased by Large companies that Send employees write to the editor of the directory knowledge Industry 701 Westchester a White 914 Chicago Tribune Tapuc by Kevin Boyd source Chicago Tribune news report a a mints involved and front and Back copies of if youve asked the Legal assistance office to help sort it out and you want the pro to reply to the be sure to notify the irs in provide evidence of a Power of attorney and Send the address and phone number of the we cant disclose personal financial in she Nassar said she will get Back to you within two weeks of receiving the allow 10 Days to two weeks for with the right Nassar can go to the com Puter for a Quick she May find the service Center had to make a correction in the tax Shell notify you and ask for a response within 60 Days if More information is if she Doest hear from you in two she disposes of the paper time is critical when working with the highly computerized our clock keeps ticking even if soldiers Are in the she if you Haven received your refund in 90 you should be writing the service she if youve got a problem account and you Haven heard anything from the irs in 60 you should be writing the the computer Doest know theres a problem unless somebody tells she if a tax Bill is its going to Issue four notices at four week intervals and then Start taking Money out of your pay or putting a Lien on the irs has w2 information Here in the she leave and earning statements Are done in places like Denver for the air Force and Indianapolis for the they have to notify you if there taking Money out of your with the time it takes mail to travel you might not know until two weeks after its already she the pro is not a Miracle Nassar but it works because it is part of the District directors office and can Cut across lines of last the office which consists of Nassar and a Secretary handled most involving miss ing refunds or payments that we rent credited one of the offices Strong Points is that not Only do taxpayers find out the status of the but they Deal with a she some taxpayers May need of tile second returns Washington if youve waited three months and have received no word about your 1984 tax you May want to Send the irs another the irs had a problem with some tax returns this a computer was in stalled too late to test it under a heavy Load before it was needed to begin proc Essing 1984 an irs spokesman at some service centers the system col that meant reprocessing especially those received in january and the spokesman Many returns had to be pulled out of temporary in some the centers Arent certain what has been re processed and what he if you decide to Send a second remember to write duplicate at the top and sign it said Susan problem Resolution officer for the internal Revenue services foreign operations if it is a joint the spouse must also sign the return should include copies of All supporting documents that accompanied the first the irs will be treating it As an Origi Nal she taxpayers with Apo or Fpo new York addresses should mail their duplicate returns to Brookhaven service Cen Box attn Maureen mail Stop Nassar emphasized that taxpayers should consider sending duplicate returns Only for 1984 delegates Back castros Call for debt default Havana a latin american delegates speaking at the opening session of a conference arranged by president Fidel Castro tuesday repeated castros Call for their nations to ignore payments on their Overall billion foreign Castro opened the five Day conference by telling More than 500 delegates from latin american and Caribbean countries that it was the widest and most pluralistic meeting that has Ever been held in this the speakers selected to address the Ini tial session All expressed support for castros View that the hemispheric debt is in payable and should be Castro made no substantive comments in his Brief but he was expected to outline his position later in the bolivian planning minister Freddy Justi one of the relatively few government representatives attending the said the foreign debts amount to economic attempts to pay off creditor he would be taking bread from the Mouths of those who did not contract the Luis the Secretary general of Chiles outlawed communist party who is now living in exile in called the hemispheric debt a knot that is strangling declaring that the debts Are compromising future he said the people of the Region confront debt repayments from Cradle to Corvalan was jailed after the 1973 coup by righting military commanders that ousted the regime of the late marxist presi Dent Salvador but he was allowed to leave Chile in 1977 and went to the soviet the conference has attracted political Union chiefs and Church the delegates represent a wide spectrum of political but most seem to sympathize with castros although limited to one of the Hemi spheres most pressing economic the conference is heavily Laden with political political analysts from throughout the hemisphere will be watching to determine whether the conference will represent a step Forward for Castro in his bid to become a key spokesman on regional Banks hold Many of the and Castro has said american officials Are los ing sleep Over the Specter of a hemisphere wide debtors he also has accused the Reagan administration of enlisting the support of com Mercial airlines in efforts to prevent delegates from travelling to the an official at the diplomatic mis Sion said when asked about the allegation that he would not dignify it with a re in underscoring the importance of the cuban officials have said that leaders of virtually All leftist parties in the hemisphere Are As Well As two former presidents Wolfgang Larrazabal of Venezuela and Walter Guevara Arce of among former presidents who declined invitations Are Rafael Caldera and Carlos Andres Perez of Venezuela and Luis eche Verria of several countries Are sending presidential emissaries to the but Brazil and the countries with the largest for eign have sent no official represent Western diplomats said Castro is inflating the attendance list by inviting delegates from two previous conferences to remain in Havana for the one of the earlier conferences involved Union leaders who took part in a meeting two weeks ago on the debt castros argument is that payments on the debt would require a degree of austerity that few latin american governments Are Strong enough to survive he has said the portion of the debt owed to Banks should be absorbed by the government and financed by defense spending i maintain that 10 or 12 percent of cur rent military spending would be sufficient to solve the problem of the Castro said its Chicken since the Pentagon would still have enough Money to destroy the world five times