Tax Lawyer, I hope you don't mind me PM'ing you and asking you a couple of quick questions. I have not filed a return since 2005. I filed this year and for 2009 a couple of weeks ago. My return was held up, as I was told it probably would be, because of missing returns. Spoke with someone from the IRS who sent me their records of reported income from 2005 on. I got a letter yesterday asking for returns from 2008, 2009 and 2010. Why not from 2005 on. I seem to remember hearing that the IRS only goes back 3 years now. Is that the case?