Unfortunately a taxpayer advocate won’t do jack for you unless you’ve waited the entire period of time specified by the IRS to either approve your refund or deny it AND you have got to Have documented proof of hardship, ie (in the taxpayer advocates OWN words, these are the ONLY acceptable forms of a hardship): foreclosure or eviction notice, cut off notices, repossession notices, etc... Basically you’ve already got to have one foot in the door of being totally and utterly ruined and, for all intents and purposes, homeless and/or without utilities. This is beyond ridiculous because not all hardship can be officially documented, such as not having groceries or gas, and by the time cut off notices arrive, is it really wise to at that point, to be only about to begin to deal with the slowest department in the entire body of government in the world, the IRS??? It’s too late by then!
