Category Archives: IRS

Dead Men Tell No Tales, Even When They’re Supposed To

For tax practitioners, the IRS’s e-Services suite of applications is extraordinarily useful. When a client give us the appropriate authorization we’re able to pull transcripts from the IRS’s computer system. This helps us file appropriate tax returns and it helps … Continue reading

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IRS Suspends ASFR Program

Via Procedurally Taxing comes news that the IRS has suspended the Automated Substitute for Return (ASFR) program. This doesn’t sound like much, but this is huge news. First, for those who aren’t tax geeks, the ASFR program is an automated … Continue reading

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Prepare to Panic!

Today is Monday, September 25, 2017. Exactly three weeks from today is Monday, October 16, 2017. That’s the deadline for individual taxpayers on extension to file their tax returns (save for those in hurricane disaster zones in Florida, Georgia, Texas, … Continue reading

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IRS Transcript Delivery System Failing for Many Users; No Fix Time

One of the major tools I use is the IRS’s e-Services system; the component I use the most is the Transcript Delivery System (TDS). Last weekend, the IRS did a major “upgrade” of the system. I have to put upgrade … Continue reading

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IRS Gives Tax Deadline Relief to Victims of Hurricane Irma

The IRS today announce that they are extending tax filing deadlines for victims of Hurricane Irma to January 31, 2018. The relief applies to any area designated by FEMA as qualifying for individual assistance (areas in Florida, Puerto Rico, and … Continue reading

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IRS Appeals Steele Decision

Earlier this year a court ruled that the IRS cannot charge for Practitioner Tax Identification Numbers (PTINs). To no one’s surprise, yesterday the IRS appealed the decision to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. It will … Continue reading

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IRS e-Services Outages the Next Two Weekends

The IRS announced today that they will be conducting their normal Labor Day maintenance this coming weekend. Most IRS e-Services applications will be down beginning Saturday, September 2nd at 8pm EDT, with normal operations scheduled to resume Tuesday, September 5th … Continue reading

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IRS Gives Tax Relief to Victims of Hurricane Harvey

The IRS announced today that they are granting residents of parts of Texas additional time to file certain individual and business tax returns and make some payments; the extension is until January 31, 2018. This relief currently applies for 18 … Continue reading

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The IRS Is Coming! The IRS is Coming!

As first reported by Bob McKenzie this morning, the IRS has purchased software to help them identify Bitcoin transactions. The IRS is reportedly using a product from Chainalysis, Inc., a New York-based supplier of products used to analyze Bitcoin activity. … Continue reading

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IRS E-Services Outage Postponed…Again

Back in June the IRS was going to do a major update of their E-Services (what tax professionals, software developers, and return transmitters use to access IRS computer systems). That update was postponed. Last month the IRS announced that the … Continue reading

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