Irm-21-5-6

Reading Your Own IRS Account

A practical decoder. The IRS posts the same reference its employees use — Document 6209 (transaction codes) and IRM 21.5.6 (freeze codes) — publicly, and the law gives every individual a right to their own account record (the free Get Transcript service; the Privacy Act). This is the six-step walkthrough plus a bureau-face / administration-face vocabulary table: request the transcript, decode the codes, identify any freeze and its documented release condition, read the collection status and its reversal pathways, verify the entity attributes. Definitional and practical, using only public government tools. Not tax advice; recommends no filing strategy.