improve online taxpayer accounts to facilitate secure email <\/strong><\/p>\nonline taxpayer accounts were a good idea that somehow got botched. functionality is needlessly limited. taxpayers can\u2019t use their accounts to view images of past tax returns, most irs notices or proposed assessments. they can\u2019t file documents. they can\u2019t even update their addresses.<\/p>\n
these are online functions that financial institutions mastered long ago. if the irs could learn to do it, paperwork, phone calls and hard-copy mail could be reduced considerably.<\/p>\n
utilize modern scanning technology<\/strong><\/p>\nscanning handwritten or even typed tax returns is prone to error. manual transcription is even more fraught with danger.<\/p>\n
but for more than two decades, companies that provide tax software have been able to produce 2-d barcodes that contain all the information that\u2019s in the return. by scanning a 2-d barcode, the irs can digitize the return with almost 100% accuracy.<\/p>\n
collins told congress that if scanning technology can be updated by the 2023 season, the current paperback return backlog could be cleared up within a year.<\/p>\n
reduce barriers to e-filing<\/strong><\/p>\nkudos to the irs for getting over 90% of taxpayers to e-file their returns. but even that high number leaves millions of paper returns arriving at the irs. there are still barriers to e-filing. some little-used tax forms are not supported by the e-file system. millions of e-filed returns get rejected for irregularities. sometimes the need for an attachment precludes e-filing.<\/p>\n
these are by no means unresolvable barriers. they can be eliminated.<\/p>\n
automate the creation and review of amended tax returns <\/strong><\/p>\nimagine a world where a taxpayer could log into an online account, select a return to amend, have it pre-populated so that only the relevant numbers need to be changed, and an amended return would be processed electronically.<\/p>\n
currently, all amended returns, even if e-filed, are treated as paper returns needing manual treatment. imagine a world where that could be changed.<\/p>\n
deploy \u201ccustomer callback\u201d technology so taxpayers and practitioners don\u2019t need to be on hold <\/strong><\/p>\ncorporations have been doing this for decades. the technology exists. why can\u2019t it exist at the irs?<\/p>\n
disaster relief postponements should allow e-filing after november<\/strong><\/p>\ntypically, the irs stops accepting e-file returns before the end of november. so taxpayers whose returns are legally postponed because of a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, end up filing paper returns. a simple change of deadline would eliminate this problem and its unnecessary paperwork.<\/p>\n
all of these solutions, from the short-term to the long-, are doable and cost-effective. a little investment today will result in more revenues in the future. at the same time, taxpayers and tax practitioner frustrations could be assuaged. let\u2019s hope power was paying attention when erin collins offered her workable solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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