IRS Website Errors Being Reported

[Lee B]

Examples copied from Forbes:

"The extension payment date for taxpayers who log into the IRS website is showing as incorrect. While payment should be made by April 15, 2025, taxpayers who log in to pay see an April 22, 2025, due date. The site says, "Your payment is due on April 22, 2025, regradless of filing for an extension." (Yes, the 'regradless' typo is on the IRS site, too)."

"Errors appear in other spots on the website, too, including misidentifying the amended tax form as Form 104X

(it's Form 1040X) that was recently “filled” instead of “filed.”

"Account holders report that previously filed and processed tax forms (for tax years 2022 and 2023) are showing as now being processed even though those returns have already been processed. (I verified the errors by logging into my account.)"

"One tax professional reported that the installment agreement option for making payments over five years (for a total of 60 months) only allowed taxpayers to make payments for five months."

"The errors have been reported to the IRS. In a statement issued to Forbes, Scott Artman, CPA, the CEO of the National Association of Tax Professionals (NATP), the largest nonprofit organization that serves individuals specializing in tax preparation, noted, “Tax professionals rely on accurate, timely guidance from the IRS, especially in the final days leading up to the deadline. As soon as this issue was confirmed, we brought it to the IRS’s attention and have been assured that it has been communicated to the appropriate internal teams with a request for prompt resolution. We are hopeful the IRS will address the issue quickly to avoid any confusion for taxpayers and preparers."

We already have enough chaos and uncertainty

[kathyc2]

With all the poking and prodding going on in IRS systems, I'm afraid we may have another crash like 2018.  Or even worse, they don't pick up the software generated withdrawal authorizations.

I was planning on having everything submitted today but some clients can't seem to get their (*&^ together and get signed forms back.

 

[jklcpa]

Faulty AI and no human to error check and correct?

[BulldogTom]

Conspiracy theorists with the highest credentials who spoke on condition of anonomy claim the workers who were forced back to the office are sabotaging the end of tax season in their final days before exercising their buyouts.   No one is available to confirm or deny these rumors.   Film at 11.

Tom
Longview, TX

[Lee B]

Copied from Forbes:

"It's a bold choice to make changes to the IRS website, especially on the payment end, days before Tax Day, prompting questions about why that might have happened. It’s not clear when the changes were made—so far, there's been no answer. However, on Wednesday, Elon Musk tweeted out on X (formerly Twitter) that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had made a fix to the IRS website:"

[Lee B]

According to this article an IRS "Hackathon" started 3 days ago:

https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/

[Max W]

15 hours ago, BulldogTom said:

Conspiracy theorists with the highest credentials who spoke on condition of anonomy claim the workers who were forced back to the office are sabotaging the end of tax season in their final days before exercising their buyouts.   No one is available to confirm or deny these rumors.   Film at 11.

Tom
Longview, TX

I wouldn't put it past them.   Remember, just before W was inaugurated, the white house staff pulled out the letter W from all the keyboards.   Infantile in both cases.

[Abby Normal]

APIs are application programming interfaces, which enable different applications to exchange data and could be used to move IRS data to the cloud and access it there. DOGE has expressed an interest in the API project possibly touching all IRS data, which includes taxpayer names, addresses, social security numbers, tax returns, and employment data.

Great. That's all we need. All our IRS data easily accessible in a cloud server.

[kathyc2]

4 hours ago, Max W said:

I wouldn't put it past them.   Remember, just before W was inaugurated, the white house staff pulled out the letter W from all the keyboards.   Infantile in both cases.

My money is on the chainsaw gang who have shown time after time that attention to detail is not their forte.