The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, Friday, March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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NEW YORK -(77WABC)- So you get a letter from the IRS saying they didn’t get your taxes last year.
According to CNN Business—that’s what’s happening to many taxpayers this year, thanks to automated notices being sent by the IRS.
But if you got one, don’t panic. There’s a fair chance the IRS simply hasn’t seen what you already sent in. That’s because it’s dealing with a mountain of returns and correspondence that has built up over the past two years. During that time, the agency was called on to deliver several rounds of economic impact payments and other financial Covid-19 relief, while trying to protect its own workforce from Covid.
The good news is that you’re not likely to get another notice for awhile. The IRS announced this week that it will temporarily suspend issuing more than a dozen different types of automated notices indicating balances due, unfiled returns and other deficiencies so that it can work through its pandemic-induced backlog. [Here is the list of notices being suspended.]
Automatic notices typically require you to respond — for example, by filing a return, making a payment, providing requested information or explaining why the notice is inaccurate. But the IRS is too busy at the moment to respond in a reasonable amount of time.
