Ronda Churchill | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesWith the opening of tax season only days away, the IRS has unveiled a plan to simplify the millions of complicated notices sent to taxpayers every year.
As part of the agency's multibillion-dollar modernization efforts, the IRS has started to review and redesign hundreds of IRS notices — such as letters about unfiled returns, taxes owed or filing errors — aiming to help resolve issues faster and boost compliance.
Known as the "Simple Notice Initiative," the program will eventually cover the roughly 170 million notices sent to taxpayers every year, according to the IRS.
The agency aims to "review, redesign, and deploy" the majority of IRS letters received by taxpayers by 2025.
The program builds on the agency's paperless processing initiative announced in August, which now allows taxpayers to respond to IRS notices online.
Persons:
Janet Yellen, Ronda Churchill, unfiled, Yellen, Danny Werfel, Werfel, filers
Organizations:
Treasury, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Bloomberg, Getty, IRS, National Taxpayer, Congress
Locations:
Las Vegas, Ronda