Government Shutdown

12/27/2018

The Senate is scheduled to convene today at 4 p.m. ET; however, no votes are expected until the President and Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have a deal on a government funding bill.

The IRS will continue a Series if activities on a limited or intermittent basis, which is considering a 5 day shutdown.

The following are those that may affect you:

Completion and testing of the upcoming Filing Year programs
Processing of returns with payments
Processing remittances including payment perfection
Processing disaster relief transcripts
Design and printing of tax forms

The following activities will NOT be conducted:

Issuing refunds
Processing non-disaster relief transcripts, income verification express service/return and income verification services
Processing 1040X, amended returns
All audit functions, examination of returns and processing of non-electronic tax returns that do not include remittances
Non-automated collections
Legal counsel
Taxpayer services such as responding to taxpayer questions (call sites)

We are here to help you even during the Government Shutdown.

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