Administration of the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number Program

Work with the IRS Information Technology organization to ensure that ITIN managers receive complete RTS extracts for use in the monthly reviews to identify ITIN applications with duplicate entity information or supporting documents.

: Implement systemic RTS processes to alert tax examiners when the supporting documents associated with an ITIN application have already been used by another ITIN applicant and require tax examiners to research the potential duplicate before assigning a new ITIN.

Implement processes and procedures, as previously agreed, to periodically identify retroactive claims that were erroneously paid or disallowed and correct the identified tax accounts to ensure that taxpayers receive only the amounts to which they are entitled.

Review the 719 tax returns we identified for which the IRS incorrectly denied retroactive credit claims and take steps needed to ensure that these taxpayers receive the benefits to which they are entitled.

Review the 5,298 tax returns we identified for which the IRS incorrectly allowed retroactive credit claims and take steps to ensure that these erroneous benefits are recovered.