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Bureau-Face Request Templates
The practical companion to Reading Your Own IRS Account. Three levels of records access, each routing through a specific statutory pathway with a specific obligation: the free IRS Account Transcript (26 U.S.C. § 6103(e)); the full Individual Master File via a FOIA / Privacy Act request to the IRS Disclosure office (5 U.S.C. §§ 552, 552a); and the SSA Numident / original SS-5 via a Privacy Act request to the SSA FOIA Workgroup (SORN 60-0058). Together Levels 2 and 3 produce both halves of the bilateral ledger the System Describes Itself essay documents — the customer master file (who the system says you are) and the transaction ledger (what it has posted), linked by the account number. Copy-pasteable template language for each level, plus a vocabulary-routing table explaining why the system's own terms route a request to the correct processing pathway. Academic reference material — not legal advice, not tax advice, and no filing strategy.
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.