Fines and Penalties when the IRS rejects your return.

[Mike9241]

The thread is over a year old. There are no fines or penalties for a return being rejected. There are penalties for many other reasons like paying late, filing late and owing, underpaying estimated tax payments, substantial understatement of income, tax fraud, etc 

[stixoffire2]

You are right it is over a year old!

Really - then the fine and penalty letter I got and the IRS agents I spoke to were all lying to me .
Surely my congressional representative would have been able to straighten that out .

If it is tax day say April 15th and they reject your return and you file again on April 16th, or 18th - you are late in filing - your fault their fault does not matter you are late. Straight from the IRS .
The IRS records were not proper and that is why they rejected my return - I did not match their improper records on my return ..(I copied straight from my previous TurboTax return)  so they rejected it .
My congressional rep office said well you had from January to file you should have filed earlier  (he's a democrat ) .
How about being able to file all the way up to the deadline and how about the IRS records being up to date and proper , and how about simple fairness .. a Landlord reject your rent on the due date because his bank is closed and then says oh you had all this time - I will charge you a late fee.. Yeah..