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1. Taxpayers alarmed by IRS notice asking them to resend their 2020 returns. Is it a scam?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat Jan 29, 2022, 07:45 AM

Jan 2022

Taxpayers alarmed by IRS notice asking them to resend their 2020 returns. Is it a scam?, USA Today, 1/28/22

Their checks to the U.S. Treasury were cashed nearly a year ago. But taxpayers say they're now receiving letters from the Internal Revenue Service asking them to immediately file their 2020 federal income tax returns.

Yes, copies of their 2020 returns. Yes, the same paper returns they filed last spring. ((And yes, the checks they sent with those returns have long ago been cashed by the IRS -Progree))

More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/taxpayers-alarmed-by-irs-notice-asking-them-to-resend-their-2020-returns-is-it-a-scam/ar-AATfYlO?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

Very long-winded. But no, it's not a scam. The IRS processes checks right away. They process returns as they have time and available people to process them. Meanwhile, the computer with its fantastic algorithm-filled brain spews out notices without anyone looking or caring if an unprocessed return had been received or not. The long-winded article tries to explain that.

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Taxpayers alarmed by IRS notice asking them to resend their 2020 returns. Is it a scam? progree Jan 2022 #1

Just wait until they got to start auditing all those extra incomes of $600 or more Farmer-Rick Jan 2022 #2

The IRS falsely claimed back in Nov 2020 for 9 months that I owed $2,900 in taxes for income progree Jan 2022 #3