Over the past twelve months, we’ve noticed a concerning rise in IRS deficiency notices (CP3219N) sent to taxpayers. In most cases, these letters result from discrepancies between filed tax returns and the IRS's records from third-party sources. When the IRS identifies a difference, they send a notice with the following options:File a Tax Return Within
As stated in the U.S. Department of the Treasury website, " The IRS sends around 170 million notices to individual taxpayers every year to help them claim the credits and deductions they are eligible for and meet their tax obligations. " In IRS communication IR-2024-155, the IRS reached the milestone of receiving 1 million documents
On January 23rd, the IRS released communication IR-2024-19 which provide more details on their Simple Notice Initiative. The IRS releases around 170 million notices / letters each year to taxpayers and the IRS wants to make it easier for the taxpayer to understand them, and hopefully reduce the number of follow up calls and communications
Over the summer and until now, we have observed a higher number of Notices of Deficiencies from the IRS in forums, colleagues discussions and through clients' consultations. This trend seems in line with other tax authorities at the State and Local levels (i.e. Philadelphia) were they put on hold the automatic notices and some collection
The IRS is requesting around $28.9 billion in taxes for the period from 2004 to 2013. The subject is related to transfer pricing issues to shift profits from a higher taxable jurisdiction to a lower taxed one, such as Puerto Rico. Daniel Goff, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Tax and Customs, has wrote a blog
Our advice to our clients is to provide us the notice from the tax authority as soon as they receive it, so we can review it, check your tax returns and other tax records and either explain in plain English the letter to the taxpayer or reply to the IRS notice. In some cases, we
The IRS sent earlier February notices to around 260,000 taxpayers as they have not filed their 2019 federal tax return. However, the IRS has not yet processed all 2019 returns so it is asking to disregard this letter. Keep in mind that certain IRS processes are taking significantly longer than expected, so please, review the
In the last weeks, we noted a significant increase in the notices received by our clients as there seem to be a backlog in the tax authorities. In some cases, the system automatically sends out a notice even if the documents and support was already provided to the tax authorities almost a year ago. Address
As expressed in our previous post titled " Deduction of PPP expenses? IRS Notice 2020-32 says no, but it might change " from May 2020, we mentioned that the legislators were planning to introduce legislation to allow the deductibility of expenses covered with PPP funds. After the IRS issued Notice 2020-32, several legislators commented that the IRS
