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Kicking off tax season with customer service and technology upgradeThe IRS unveiled a new option this week to allow taxpayers to more easily respond to certain agency notices.
The new facility allows taxpayers and professionals to respond to nine notices online by digitally uploading the requested documents instead of responding by mail. News release From Thursday
“It’s definitely a step in the right direction,” said certified financial planner John Chichester Jr., founder and CEO of Chichester Financial Group in Phoenix. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.
Chichester said allowing taxpayers and professionals to respond to notices online would “save everyone time and energy.”
Currently, you can use the new upload facility for the following nine information, which include Earned Income Tax Credit and child tax credit Recipients, which are received by more than 500,000 taxpayers per year:
- CP04 – War Zone Status
- CP05A – Information request for refund
- cp06 And CP06A – premium tax credit
- cp08 – child tax credit
- cp09, CP75 And CP75a – Earned Income Tax Credit
- CP75d – Earned Income Tax Credit and others
The IRS plans to expand the upload capability to “dozens of other notices” in the future.
“This means people can get their issues resolved much faster, including faster refunds to affected taxpayers,” said Doug O’Donnell, acting commissioner of the IRS. said in a statement,
If you receive one of the nine notices, it will include a link and unique access code, according to the IRS. You can use any browser to open the link, enter the access code and add personal details before uploading the required documents.
Paper has been a major issue for the IRS
The document-upload feature comes during a critical time for the IRS, as the agency receives $80 billion funding over the next decade as part of the Inflation Reduction Act.
During 2022, the IRS millions of unprocessed returnsand Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Said to clear the pile one of the top priorities For IRS funding.
Paper returns and correspondence have been a major issue, according to the National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collinswho recently published Annual Report to Congress,
“The IRS still relies on outdated manual practices and a human assembly line for its paper processing operations, and paper is its kryptonite,” he wrote in his 2022 report.