IRS Announces Tax Season Start Date Despite Government Shutdown

[Eugene]

Source: Forbes

Jan 7, 2019, 07:27pm

IRS Announces Tax Season Start Date Despite Government Shutdown

Kelly Phillips Erb
Senior Contributor

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that tax season will open on Monday, January 28, 2019. The IRS will begin accepting paper and electronic tax returns that day.

The IRS made the start date announcement despite the ongoing government shutdown. “We are committed to ensuring that taxpayers receive their refunds notwithstanding the government shutdown. I appreciate the hard work of the employees and their commitment to the taxpayers during this period,” said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig.

According to the IRS, Congress directed the payment of tax refunds through a permanent, indefinite appropriation (31 U.S.C. 1324). The IRS says it has “consistently been of the view that it has authority to pay refunds despite a lapse in annual appropriations.” While the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has previously directed the IRS not to pay refunds during a lapse, the IRS indicated that OMB has reviewed the relevant law at Treasury’s request and concluded that IRS may pay tax refunds during a lapse. (You can read more here.)

As a result, the IRS intends to recall “a significant portion of its workforce” to work. More information will be available once the IRS issues its updated Lapsed Appropriations Contingency Plan, which is slated to “be released publicly in the coming days.” The most recently released contingency plan lapsed on December 31, 2018.

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[progree]

1. OK, so where are Lines 6 and 11 on Form 1040?

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Or any other numbered lines for that matter?

LATER: I found the rest of Form 1040
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf

and then scroll down past the blank half page and it will show page 2, sigh. I thought the first page was "it" because it ended with the signatures, like it was the end. And the rest of the page, a full half page, was blank.


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In https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211636214 we determined that Form 1040 has been replaced by a silly new little half page Form 1040 augmented by six new schedules, Schedules 1 through Schedule 6. These latter schedules have instructions to put the results onto Form 1040

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For convenience, links to Form 1040 and the 6 schedules all together:

Schedule 1, Additional Income and Adjustments to Income
  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s1.pdf
Schedule 2, Tax
  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s2.pdf
Schedule 3, Nonrefundable Credits
  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s3.pdf
Schedule 4, Other Taxes
  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s4.pdf
Schedule 5, Other Payments and Refundable Credits
  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s5.pdf
Schedule 6, Foreign Address and Third Party Designee
  https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040s6.pdf

Form 1040: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf
   (Remember to scroll down past the blank half page to see page 2)

[Farmer-Rick]

2. Thanks

That is one convoluted process. You'd think the government would make it a whole lot easier to give them your money. You would think that and you would be wrong.

[progree]

3. This was part of the RepubliCON pledge to shrink the 1040 to the size of a postcard

and they have sort of succeeded if you take the 2 half pages and staple them back to back (probably not supposed to do that but oh well) -- a 2-sided very large and very busy postcard. And not counting the six new schedules (Schedule 1 thru Schedule 6) that supposedly most people won't need.

Clever RepubliCONS.

A complete almost comical exercise in absurdity. Almost comical because it really isn't funny.



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[nitpicker]

4. Thanks too!

[progree]

5. You're welcome 😂, and Farmer-Rick too 😂. It took me a long long time to figure it out 🎶 /nt