TIMEFRAMES
EFFECTIVE INTERVIEWING
NFTL
DOCUMEN-TATION
CIS
100

For BalDue and DelRet cases, initial contact is required within this number of days

What is 45 days?

100

Revenue Officers should take these THREE steps if confronted with a threat, assault, harassment or taxpayer suicide threat during an interview

What are: 

-End contact/Leave Scene 

-Contact local TIGTA office  

-Inform Manager?

100

Once initial contact is made, a lien determination is required within this number of days

What is 10 days?

100

IRM 5.1.10.8 requires Revenue Officers to use the picklist for which four actions?

What are:

•Taxpayer Contact • Taxpayer or Asset Location Activity • FTD Verification and • Closing Narrative (for BMF accounts)

100

For a sole proprietorship with an outstanding liability that cannot be paid immediately, this CIS form is used to secure their financial information

What is Form 433-A?

200

IRM 5.1.10.9(2) requires the initiation of a follow-up action within this many days of the expiration of a deadline

What is 15 days?

200

This letter, along with Form 9297, is sent to a taxpayer to advise them of a meeting that has been scheduled

What is Letter 725?

200

The NFTL filing determination requirement for additional assessments assigned to a case on ICS after the initial contact is this long.

What is 30 days from assignment of the module or the next scheduled touch, whichever is sooner?

200

These are the THREE type options on ICS for documenting a Taxpayer Contact

What are F-Field, Telephone, O-Office

200

Form 433-A. Sect. 3 - Other Financial Information asks about activity regarding the transfer of assets for less than full value for this reason

What is to determine if the TP has attempted to place assets out of the Government’s reach?

300

A request for a Collection Due Process (CDP) hearing must be filed within this number of days from issuance of Final Demand or Filing of the NFTL

What is 30 days?

300

Identifying these TWO case indicators can help you to avoid a threatening situation with a taxpayer

What is Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer (PDT) and Caution (CAU)

300

A taxpayer may file this, to appeal a NFTL filing

What is a Collection Due Process (CDP) request?

300

List THREE sources you might document in LEVY SOURCE(S) SECURED

•bank accounts • employer and wage information • virtual currency, and • real and personal property owned. individual retirement accounts (IRA) • retirement annuities • pensions • dividends • rental income • credit card processor/merchant account information • accounts receivables

300

This is the major difference between Whole Life and Term Life Insurance policies

What is Whole policies accrue cash and loan value while Term policies do not?

400

For an FTD Alert, initial contact is required within this number of days

What is 15 days?

400

List THREE factors to consider when determining the amount of research needed before Initial Contact

What are:

•Size of the liability • Complexity of the case • The types of the liability and entity • Compliance history • Cross compliance issues • Cooperation level of the taxpayer • Results of the financial analysis • The taxpayer’s employer or business they engage in

400

You should file a NFTL when the aggregate unpaid balance of assessment (UBA) is this much

What is $10,000 or more?

400

The required documentation of this, includes Filings, FTD’s and Estimated Tax Payments

What is Full Compliance Check?

400

The THREE types/categories of Allowable Expenses

What are Allowable Living Expenses, Other Necessary Expenses AND Other Conditional Expenses?

500

You should make a TFRP determination after the initial contact, but no later than this many days after the receipt of the balance due in Field Collection

What is 120 days?

500

These are the THREE types of questions for effective questioning of a taxpayer

What are Confirming, Probing & Clarifying?

500

To attach to real property, the NFTL must be filed in this location

What is the County where the real property is located?

500

Documentation explaining why the NFTL would hamper collection, must accompany this determination

What is a determination to Defer the NFTL filing?

500

Reviewing a taxpayer’s pay stubs and researching their prior year tax liability are two ways to determine the allowable amount for this Other Necessary Expense

What is Current Year Taxes?