IRS e-filing sometimes not working

Due to the technical problem the agency ceased to accept tax returns that were electronically submitted. Doing so means that no one would be able to open an account in your name.

Aggressive and threatening phone calls by criminals impersonating IRS agents remain a major threat to taxpayers, headlining the annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams for the 2016 filing season, the Internal Revenue Service announced today.

“We’re going to continue to file returns as normal and there shouldn’t be anything to worry about”, Marcussen said.

“A number of taxpayer and tax practitioner tools are unavailable”, the agency advised.

The IRS did not elaborate on what caused the outage, saying that is was “continuing to examine the underlying cause … as well as monitoring any follow-up issues”. “We apologize for the inconvenience this caused, and we appreciate the support and patience from taxpayers as well as our partners in the tax community and state revenue departments”.

In a statement posted to the IRS’s website Wednesday evening, the agency said its e-file and Where’s My Refund systems will be offline for repairs.

Modernized e-file is the IRS’s main electronic return filing platform, accepting many types of federal tax forms including those for employment taxes and excise taxes and for filing extensions of time to file.

Some systems will be out of service at least until Thursday, the agency said.

At the moment, the agency says that it is still assessing the problem to ascertain what led to the shutdown of systems.

Demand that you pay taxes without giving you the opportunity to question or appeal the amount they say you owe.

Taxpayers who have already filed do not need to do anything, the IRS said. The program was developed in 2003 with the help of the IRS.

The IRS hasn’t yet commented on whether any taxpayer information was lost or compromised.

Scammers sometimes send bogus IRS emails to some victims to support their bogus calls.

The IRS says the scammers use the threat of arrest, court action or deportation to con victims into sending them cash, usually through a prepaid debit card or wire transfer.