The Internal Revenue Service is suspending the issuance of a number of notices it usually mails to tax-exempt organizations and governmental entities when it’s missing their tax returns, citing the pandemic and the IRS’s own backlog of unprocessed tax returns and correspondence.
The announcement Friday by the IRS’s Exempt Organization unit acknowledged that the IRS hasn’t yet processed several million tax returns filed by individuals and entities.
“The suspension of the notices will help avoid confusion when a filing is still in process,” said the IRS. “The IRS will continue to assess the inventory of pending returns to determine the appropriate time to resume mailing these notices. Some taxpayers and tax professionals may still receive the notices during the next few weeks. Generally, there is no need to call or respond to the notices as long as the return was filed timely.”
The announcement came after the IRS, under pressure from lawmakers and tax and accounting groups, agreed to suspend other types of automated tax notices for individual taxpayers last month, including collection notices, balance due notices and unfiled tax return notices (
The suspended notices for tax-exempt and governmental entities include:
