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IRS Churning Out Math Error Notices, Frustrating Taxpayers
ByKelly Phillips Erb August 12, 2021August 16, 2021

Over the past year, the IRS has been slow to process tax returns but has appeared to continue to issue notices – especially math error notices. While the IRS made 628,997 math error corrections last year through July 15, 2020, the IRS made about 9 million math error corrections on returns filed by taxpayers in…

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IRS Is Sending Out Notices With Past-Due Deadlines
ByKelly Phillips Erb June 26, 2020October 17, 2020

As the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) re-opens, it has some catching up to do: The estimated backlog of unopened IRS mail stands at 11 million. According to the Taxpayer Advocate, during the shutdown, the IRS generated more than 20 million notices; however, these notices were not mailed to taxpayers. Think about that number for a…

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