<prompt> Human: I was contracted by a company to create exclusive videos for them for two years. My contract ran up in early 2015 and havent worked for them in around a year. During 2014, I was paid a total of 950. I received a letter from the IRS yesterday, a CP2000 notice, stating that the company reported that they paid me 95,000 in 2014 obviously a decimal error. The IRS says that I owe them 28,000 before February or my assets get frozen. I have the 1099-MISC form the company sent me back in 2014, stating that my compensation was 950. No one, that I know of, still works at the company except for the CCO they were bought in 2015 and became a subsidiary of a much larger company. I emailed the new GM who said forwarded my email to the new accountant and said he is working on tracking down the old accountant. What can I do? Im supposed to move in a few months and cant afford to have any of assets frozen. I know that I must return the response form to the CP2000 saying that I dont agree with all the changes, but will I still have to pay before the deadline if things dont get sorted out by the company soon?I feel helpless in this situation. What can I do besides wait for the company accountant to send a correction form? And if they just dont do it in time, am I screwed?  <response>: There is an IRS hotline for underpayers. Call them, as Ive been in a similar situation, and found the hotline very helpful. It was a situation in that both the payroll and HR person dealing with my case left and I had to escalate this to the VP of my rather large company in order to resolve the issue. The whole thing took about 3 months to resolve. In the meantime, the IRS hotline people when I called them and explained that I cant make the deadline and why, and helped me a lot, including pushing back my deadline to respond. 