Due to shelter-in-place orders, the Internal Revenue Service has shut down all of its processing centers and has stopped processing paper returns.
This means that many unopened business tax refund requests have been moved into trailers.
“There is so much mail that the Post Office can’t hold it,” said Sunita Lough, deputy commissioner for Services and Enforcement at the IRS during a panel webcast by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center last week.
“So we are literally holding it in trailers until our employees can get back,” she said. This won’t hold up most individual tax filers, 90% of whom file their taxes electronically. But a lot of business tax returns and individuals’ amended tax returns are filed on paper.
“Filing season is going great,” Lough said.
To help alleviate the delay, the IRS is allowing people to send documents that they usually send in the mail via fax and email as long as certain requirements are met. The agency has also extended various tax filing and payment deadlines.
Individuals have until July 15 to file their 2019 tax returns.
As of April 10, the IRS had received about 13% fewer individual tax returns this year compared to 2019 and processed 15.5% less.
In addition, the IRS has been tasked with sending out stimulus payments to 90% of Americans, as outlined in the $2.2 trillion CARES Act signed into law last month.
Last week, it sent out the first round of stimulus payments, directly depositing money to roughly 80 million people’s bank accounts.
This means that many unopened business tax refund requests have been moved into trailers.
“There is so much mail that the Post Office can’t hold it,” said Sunita Lough, deputy commissioner for Services and Enforcement at the IRS during a panel webcast by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center last week.
“So we are literally holding it in trailers until our employees can get back,” she said.
This won’t hold up most individual tax filers, 90% of whom file their taxes electronically. But a lot of business tax returns and individuals’ amended tax returns are filed on paper.
“Filing season is going great,” Lough said.
To help alleviate the delay, the IRS is allowing people to send documents that they usually send in the mail via fax and email as long as certain requirements are met. The agency has also extended various tax filing and payment deadlines.
Individuals have until July 15 to file their 2019 tax returns.
As of April 10, the IRS had received about 13% fewer individual tax returns this year compared to 2019 and processed 15.5% less.
In addition, the IRS has been tasked with sending out stimulus payments to 90% of Americans, as outlined in the $2.2 trillion CARES Act signed into law last month.
Last week, it sent out the first round of stimulus payments, directly depositing money to roughly 80 million people’s bank accounts.
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