question: we are in an era of paperless procedures and files, but many times clients send in paper documents, cds or stick drives, besides emailing their information or using our portal.
irs commissioner charles rettig says the backlog of millions of returns will remain unresolved for months more.
“we would hope to be through this backlog by the summer,” rettig told house ways and means oversight subcommittee chairman bill pascrell, who said 24 million returns are jammed in the irs pileup. rettig countered with 2.4 million, the number of individual returns.
his testimony came a day after the government announced it would extend the filing deadline from april 15 to may 17, with crucial details still to be determined. the new rules sent tax software companies rushing to push out updates and left accountants and their clients in limbo. and, he said the delay in the tax-filing deadline could postpone the launch of a new monthly child tax credit payment program,
where’s my amended return? irs online self-assistance applications
what to tell clients when they ask.
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long, long ago, humans began to use tools. technology began with the sharpened stick and the stone hammer and soon grew into the wheel, the arch, the printing press, electricity, interplanetary transportation, finally reaching a lofty pinnacle known as the “where’s my amended return” tool at the irs.
today, with a few clicks of a mouse and a few keystrokes of information, a taxpayer can discover virtually nothing about the fate of an amended return. and it takes only a few minutes! read more →
the irs had received 55.7 million individual income tax returns as of march 5, the latest data available. this was down 18.1 percent from the same calendar week in 2020, but not an apples-to-apples comparison because the 2021 tax season began 18 days later. it had processed 49 million returns, down 24.7 percent, pegging the current processing rate at 87.9 percent. read more →