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Nearly 9 Million Errors on e-Filed Returns; IRS Can't Track Filing Date

BobKamman
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A recent report from TIGTA highlights the IRS’s inconsistent treatment of millions of e-filed returns that have errors. IRS e-file processes consider an e-filed tax return as “filed” when the IRS accepts the return for processing, not when the IRS originally receives the return. The TIGTA report reveals that IRS does not have the “the ability to use the date an e-filed return was initially received as the return filing date.”

...TIGTA notes that there were about 26 million ERS [Error Resolution System] issues on 2019 individual returns, with over 24 million of those errors attributable to “when the tax liability, balance due amount or refund computed is incorrect, or when information on the return does not match the information on a supporting form or schedule.” Not surprisingly the numbers of these types of errors are much higher on paper returns, (appx 15.3 million to 8.9 million).

https://procedurallytaxing.com/tigta-audit-flags-inconsistency-in-irs-treatment-of-e-filed-returns/ 

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