November 2, 2022 – As discussed in Part One, I, together with several other IRS executives, had the honor to work side by side with employees in the extraction mailroom at the IRS’s Kansas City campus. As discussed in Part … Read More
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NTA Blog: My Recent Kansas City Campus Experience (Part One)
November 1, 2022 – Earlier this month, I spent a week at the IRS campus in Kansas City helping campus employees and surge teams to process the IRS’s paper inventory backlog. Earlier this month, I spent a week at the … Read More
NTA Blog: The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel Celebrates 20 Years of Making the IRS Work Better for You
October 12, 2022 – It gives me great pride and joy to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel! This year, the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP) marks a major milestone – two decades of advancing its mission of … Read More
NTA Blog: When to Use a Durable Power of Attorney to Authorize Representation Before the IRS
October 5, 2022 – As the U.S. population ages, taxpayers and their representatives are increasingly confronted with the question of how to appoint a power of attorney (POA) to act on behalf of taxpayers in the event of incompetence or … Read More
NTA Blog: How to Identify the IRS’s Broad Penalty Relief Initiative and Other Helpful Tips for Understanding Tax Account Transcripts: Part Two
September 29, 2022 – Part Two continues with more helpful tips I hope you will find useful when trying to understand IRS transcripts. How to Identify the IRS’s Broad Penalty Relief Initiative and Other Helpful Tips for Understanding Tax Account … Read More
NTA Blog: How to Identify the IRS’s Broad Penalty Relief Initiative and Other Helpful Tips for Understanding Tax Account Transcripts: Part One
September 27, 2022 – I recently blogged about the IRS’s broad relief for late filing penalties for 2019 and 2020 tax returns. During the height of the pandemic, taxpayers experienced many obstacles to the timely filing of their 2019 and … Read More
NTA Blog: The NTA Reimagines the IRS with a Dramatically Improved Taxpayer Experience: Part Two
September 15, 2022 – Last month, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA22), which provides the IRS with supplemental funding of nearly $80 billion over the next ten years. The legislation provides about $3.2 billion for taxpayer services, $4.8 billion … Read More
NTA Blog: The NTA Reimagines the IRS with a Dramatically Improved Taxpayer Experience: Part One
September 14, 2022 – Last month, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA22), which provides the IRS with supplemental funding of nearly $80 billion over the next ten years. More than half the funding has been earmarked for tax law … Read More
NTA Blog: Improving Services to Taxpayers With Visual Disabilities
September 08, 2022 -Millions of U.S. taxpayers are visually impaired and unable to read print material in a standard font size. As a result of a settlement agreement between the IRS and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) on … Read More
NTA Blog: Good News: The IRS Is Automatically Providing Late Filing Penalty Relief for Both 2019 and 2020 Tax Returns. Taxpayers Do Not Need to Do Anything to Receive this Administrative Relief.
August 24, 2022 -Taxpayers need not do anything to receive this administrative relief. The IRS is automatically removing (abating) failure-to-file penalties for 2019 and 2020 returns. Bottom Line: What Does this Mean for Taxpayers? Taxpayers need not do anything to … Read More