{"id":1462,"date":"2020-10-08T13:50:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2020-10-08T13:51:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T13:51:42","slug":"irs-continues-to-work-through-mail-backlog-consisting-of-over-5-million-unopened-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/irs-continues-to-work-through-mail-backlog-consisting-of-over-5-million-unopened-items\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Continues to Work Through Mail Backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>IR<strong>S Continues to Work Through Mail Backlog Consisting of Over 5 Million Unopened Items<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The IRS continues to work through its mail backlog, which consists of over 5 million unopened items, according to IRS Commissioner Charles \u201cChuck\u201d Rettig. Notably, there are an estimated 2.5 million unopened paper income tax returns included within the backlog.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing everything we can to reduce this backlog, including providing relief for taxpayers who have sent us mail that was unopened for a period of time,\u201d Rettig said during an October 7 House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations hearing. Additionally, the IRS continues to receive approximately 300,000 to 500,000 pieces of mail each week, Rettig noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rettig\u2019s written testimony provided to the National Society of Accountants (NSA) by the IRS, some of the following initiatives are taking place:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For people who had tax refunds affected by IRS closures, it is paying interest on refunds. These payments, which can sometimes show up as a second deposit, average $18 for nearly 14 million taxpayers.<\/li>\n<li>The IRS is also crediting people in instances where there is unopened mail and they are making a payment. The IRS credits people on the date the mail was received, not the day the IRS processes the payment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For NSA&#8217;s full report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmsend58.com\/link.cfm?r=d28eq-VXX6tN2AfCqFdYgQ~~&amp;pe=ka1qdfy1cR-URat-LFBY8Da8DHXOScw3Ey0O2tHGWESc5aLp6_-vl8HbxB_xFQo_LQwhl47dlvBSIILq2AzdcA~~&amp;t=Ebge1pwPTmpYPY1IuGPmkg~~\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IRS Continues to Work Through Mail Backlog Consisting of Over 5 Million Unopened Items The IRS continues to work through its mail backlog, which consists of over 5 million unopened items, according to IRS Commissioner Charles \u201cChuck\u201d Rettig. Notably, there are an estimated 2.5 million unopened paper income tax returns included within the backlog. \u201cWe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoncpas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}