It’s tax time and the IRS is trying to reduce some of the pandemic-induced panic many people are again likely to be feeling this year.
Still struggling with a backlog of about 6 million unprocessed individual returns going back as far as 2019, the agency announced last week it would suspend sending out automated warnings to filers that their taxes are overdue.
in a statement. “Stopping these letters — which could have been sent to thousands of taxpayers — will help avoid confusion.”“Ordinarily, the IRS has computers set to send notices to taxpayers warning them when a tax return is overdue,” she said in an email. “But right now, there’s a big backlog of taxpayers’ returns that have been filed but have not yet been processed.”
Most years, the IRS starts the filing season with about a million returns yet to be processed. This year, it’s six times that amount, according to the agency.
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