I spoke with a few IRS associates today and learned the following:
- My 5th child does indeed exist on their records. For whatever reason, the downloaded transcripts don't show that individual, but we confirmed all 7 household members.
- I'm still in disagreement on line 30 of the 1040, the Recovery Rebate Credit. What TurboTax 2020 generated and what I generated by hand match up. What the IRS revised the amount to, lowering it be ~$1,100 does not make sense to me.
- Every time I request a line-by-line review of the Recovery Rebate Credit worksheet, I'm either denied by the agent or get disconnected in way or another. I want to know why my numbers don't align with their numbers... if the tables were turned, they'd have sent me a notice and be demanding payment!!
Still - the whole process thus far has been awful. I have written notes all over my desk about every call, every agents' ID\code, and so forth. Over 5 hours thus far between yesterday and today.
I'll open a separate discussion on the Recovery Rebate Credit.
