01/20/2018
How does the government shutdown impact the IRS and tax filing?
The opening of tax filing season on January 29th will continue as planned, with the following activities to be performed on a limited or intermittent basis:
Completion and testing of the upcoming Filing Year programs
Electronic returns that are processed systemically (requiring no intervention by service center functions) up to the point of refunds
Processing paper tax returns through batching
Processing remittances including payment perfection
Processing disaster relief transcripts
The following activities will be furloughed and will NOT be conducted:
Service center processing after the point of batching (i.e. processing paper tax returns)
Issuing refunds
Processing non-disaster relief transcripts, income verification express service/return and income verification services
Processing 1040X amended returns
All audit functions, examination of returns and processing of non-electronic tax returns that do not include remittances
Non-automated collections
Legal counsel
Taxpayer services such as responding to taxpayer questions (call sites)
Stay tuned for further updates.
