The IRS wants to rewrite its complicated letters to taxpayers and speak to people in plain English.
The federal tax collector is rewriting and sending out commonly received notices ahead of the 2024 tax filing season as part of its new “Simple Notice Initiative.”
“Redesigned notices will be shorter, clearer and easier to understand,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on a Tuesday call with reporters to preview the initiative. “Taxpayers will see the difference when they open the mail and when they log into their online accounts.”
The 2024 tax season begins on January 29.
You know that for 90% of people, they could just tell everyone how much they owe and call it good?
Like there’s zero need for us to file taxes because they already know how much we spent. Over all, people would be taxed less because there’s no need to itemize deductions in what is meant to be an obtusely arcane process fundamentally designed to benefit the other 10% while creating an entire industry…
But details.
You know that for 90% of people, they could just tell everyone how much they owe and call it good?
Yeah, but intuit owns them, so they won’t.
Thanks Biden!
Dear Taxpayer,
You pay $xxx.xx or we [REDACTED] you.
t. Taxman/woman/xer
From the article:
More than 170 million notices are sent out annually by the IRS to taxpayers regarding credits, deductions and taxes owed. The notices are often needlessly long and filled with legal jargon — forcing many confused taxpayers to call the agency and jam up the phone lines.
Simpler notices in plain language will help people understand their tax liability and improve tax enforcement, said IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, who said the initiative is paid for with funding from Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.
Why do you have a problem with that?