01/28/2022

IRS Suspends Some Automated Notices Three Days into 2022 Tax Season

The agency smartly is trying to avoid adding to a backlog of returns

Internal Revenue Service (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.

As of Dec. 31, the IRS had 6 million unprocessed individual returns, including returns for the 2020 tax year.

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