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Three days after the 2022 tax season started, an overwhelmed IRS suspends some taxpayer notices [View all]
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Three days after the 2022 tax season started, an overwhelmed IRS suspends some taxpayer notices
The agency is trying to cut down on correspondence with taxpayers, to avoid adding to a backlog of returns
By Michelle Singletary
Columnist
Yesterday at 7:00 a.m. EST
IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig and Treasury Department officials warned that the 2022 tax season would bring “enormous challenges.” That prophecy is already coming true.
The tax season opened Monday. Just three days later, the IRS announced it was suspending the mailing of certain automated notices because of a backlog in processing returns. The move would avert additional correspondence with taxpayers that would only add to the paper logjam and possibly prevent even more stress for filers.
[IRS delays triggered some premature collection notices]
As of Dec. 31, the IRS had 6 million unprocessed individual returns, including returns for the 2020 tax year.
The agency didn’t provide a detailed list of which notices it would be suspending, only referencing one type of letter, sent to taxpayers when the IRS has credited payments but has no record of the tax return being filed.
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By Michelle Singletary
If you have a personal finance question for Michelle, please call 1-855-ASK-POST (1-855-275-7678). Her award-winning column The Color of Money is syndicated by The Washington Post News Service and Syndicate and carried in dozens of newspapers. Twitter https://twitter.com/SingletaryM
Perspective
Three days after the 2022 tax season started, an overwhelmed IRS suspends some taxpayer notices
The agency is trying to cut down on correspondence with taxpayers, to avoid adding to a backlog of returns
By Michelle Singletary
Columnist
Yesterday at 7:00 a.m. EST
IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig and Treasury Department officials warned that the 2022 tax season would bring “enormous challenges.” That prophecy is already coming true.
The tax season opened Monday. Just three days later, the IRS announced it was suspending the mailing of certain automated notices because of a backlog in processing returns. The move would avert additional correspondence with taxpayers that would only add to the paper logjam and possibly prevent even more stress for filers.
[IRS delays triggered some premature collection notices]
As of Dec. 31, the IRS had 6 million unprocessed individual returns, including returns for the 2020 tax year.
The agency didn’t provide a detailed list of which notices it would be suspending, only referencing one type of letter, sent to taxpayers when the IRS has credited payments but has no record of the tax return being filed.
{snip}
By Michelle Singletary
If you have a personal finance question for Michelle, please call 1-855-ASK-POST (1-855-275-7678). Her award-winning column The Color of Money is syndicated by The Washington Post News Service and Syndicate and carried in dozens of newspapers. Twitter https://twitter.com/SingletaryM
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