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Actions Can Be Taken to Proactively Reduce Unpostable Transactions

Report Number
2020-40-020

… General for Tax Administration Audit $0 $19900 The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should establish … by IRS functional areas and to coordinate with the… The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should … document. Phone Number / 202-622-6500 E-mail Address / TIGTACommunications@tigta.treas.gov Website / …

Fiscal Year 2021 Statutory Review of Restrictions on Directly Contacting Represented Taxpayers

Report Number
2021-30-054

… General for Tax Administration Audit $0 $0 The Deputy Commissioner for Operations Support shoule ensure that the … their annual requirement to complete Section 1204 training after the training course is loaded on the Integrated Talent … inform taxpayers of these rights.6 In addition, this Act added I.R.C. § 7803(d)(1)(A)(ii), which requires TIGTA to …

Millions of Dollars in Discrepancies in Tax Withholding Required by the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act Are Not Being Identified or Addressed

Report Number
2020-40-014

… Inspector General for Tax Administration Audit $0 $0 The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should initiate … passed the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984,2 which added Internal Revenue Code Section (§) 1445, to require a … Seller Sales Before January 1, 2018 35 percent Sales After December 31, 2017 21 percent Source: Instructions for …

Additional Actions Are Needed to Further Reduce Undeliverable Mail

Report Number
2019-40-074

… General for Tax Administration Audit $0 $0 The Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement should develop … that have a UD mail indicator on their account;… The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should install … 2 A tax return is generally considered properly processed after a 45-day processing period that begins the day after …

Hearing before the Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, United States House of Representatives entitled "IRS Oversight: Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration"

Congressional Hearing and Testimony
… Hearing before the Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial … to fit a one-half-page front and back. This substantially added to the volume of tax forms, instructions, and … on January 28, 2019, as planned, which was three days after the government reopened. As of May 3, 2019, the IRS …

Joint hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits, and Administrative Rules and Subcommittee on Government Operations; United States House of Representatives entitled "Examining IRS Customer Service Challenges"

Congressional Hearing and Testimony
… Joint hearing before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform; Subcommittee … average amount of time for an assistor to answer the call after the call is routed to a call center. 6 76.1 percent. … reporting of Forms W-2 information has proven to have an added benefit of allowing the IRS to exclude legitimate tax …

Excise Tax Registrations Are Not Always Timely or Accurately Processed

Report Number
2019-40-079

… Inspector General for Tax Administration Audit $0 $0 The Commissioner, Small Business/Self-Employed Division, should … Internal Revenue Service Yes 4a3291e9-420d-41ad-b571-89efc6332475 File 201940079fr.pdf Yes (agency-wide) … TREASURY … this to the IRS’s attention, management took action and added the Form 637 indicators to nine the accounts we …