IRS launches paperless processing initiative
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IRS launches paperless processing initiative
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#2Welcome to 21st century. Sincerely, the rest of the developed world.
I hope TurboTax and friends doesn't manage to screw this one up.
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#3Big thanks to y'all at the IRS and US Digital Service who are working on this.
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#4>Taxpayers will be able to digitally submit all correspondence, non-tax forms, and responses to notices;
Nice! I had to reply to a notice last year, and fortunately, I was able to respond to it "digitally", but only via a workaround: since one accepted medium is fax, I used an e-fax service to send the response.[1] It definitely felt like there had to be a better way.
[1] Shout-out to faxrocket, featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15484390
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#5>Taxpayers will be able to digitally submit all correspondence, non-tax forms, and responses to notices; Nice! I had to reply to a notice last year, and fortunately, I was able to respond to it "digitally", but only via a workaround: since one accepted medium is fax, I used an e-fax service to send the response.[1] It definitely felt like there had to be a better way. [1] Shout-out to faxrocket, featured on HN: https…
Maybe they just got funding for email?
I think it is intentional that governments, especially bigger ones like state and federal, make on the record communication with them more difficult. I have called government offices many times only to receive a message that says “call back the next business day”..at 10AM. No way to submit an email, or even a simple call back function.
No, you have to spend hours of your time trying to reach them, and the only way this makes sense is if they want to make some people give up.
The only advice for this is to contact a politician and hope they take up your personal cause. Basically, what you would expect in a poor, developing country, except there, at least it is known how much you need to bribe someone to get service.
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#6The UK has had online tax returns since 2001. It always amazes me how many things in the US still use paper.
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#7Welcome to 21st century. Sincerely, the rest of the developed world. I hope TurboTax and friends doesn't manage to screw this one up.
They must be pissed that their ROI for their lobbying money is so low. Fingers crossed!
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#8The UK has had online tax returns since 2001. It always amazes me how many things in the US still use paper.
The article is primarily about processing documents other than actual income tax returns. Does the U.K. have a completely digital (paperless) way of communicating with taxpayers and resolving issues after the tax return is filed?
The U.S. has had "online tax returns" (e-file) since the 1990s. Paid tax preparers are mandated to efile, it is only the minority of DIY taxpayers who insist on paper filing their income tax returns.
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#9The UK has had online tax returns since 2001. It always amazes me how many things in the US still use paper.
Electronic filing of tax returns has been available for over 30 years. This is about everything else.
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#10will this allow me to digitally file my amended federal taxes? That's the one thing that I was looking forward to when I started reading this and possible may impact most taxpayers but looks like IRS still needs amended tax returns in a paper form being mailed out to them?