Most taxpayers will be able to digitally send a multitude of tax files and other interactions to the IRS next filing season as the firm intends to go totally paperless by2025
The effort to decrease the expensive load of documents that has pestered the firm — called the “paperless processing effort” — was revealed Wednesday by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel.
The effort is being funded through an $80 billion infusion of money for the IRS over 10 years under the Inflation Reduction Act passed into law last August, although some of that cash currently is being cut back.
“Thanks to the IRA, we are in the procedure of changing the IRS into a digital-first firm,” Yellen stated throughout a checkout to an IRS paper processing center in McLean, Virginia.
“By the next filing season,” she stated, “taxpayers will be able to digitally send all correspondence, non-tax kinds, and notification actions to the IRS.”
“Of course, taxpayers will constantly have the cho