IRS Releases Tax Filing Season Contingency Plan, Warns of Continuing Limited Operations During Shutdown

As the federal government shutdown approaches its fourth week, the Internal Revenue Service today unveiled its contingency plan for the upcoming tax filing season. Most IRS operations have been closed since funding for the agency ran out on December 22, 2018, and most IRS employees have been furloughed since that date. Notwithstanding the shutdown, the IRS has announced that tax filing season will begin on January 28, 2019, for individual taxpayers. In today’s announcement, the IRS noted that taxpayers should be mindful of the following points during what it called “this challenging period”: File electronically. The IRS will accept paper and electronic tax returns, but taxpayers are urged to file electronically to speed processing and refunds. Tax refunds. Refunds will be paid, but the IRS cautions that returns will continue to be subject to refund fraud, identity theft and other internal reviews as in prior years. Tax filing. Taxpayers can start working on…

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