IRS Chief Urges Tax Professionals to File Extended Returns Early

Tax practitioners can help the IRS get caught up if they don’t wait until the last minute to file tax returns that received an extension, IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said at a conference Tuesday in Las Vegas.

“Take a look at what you can get filed now,” Rettig told the group of more than 2,000 professionals at Latino Tax Fest. “We are doing our best.”

• Rettig said the agency received 18 million 1040 extensions, and the IRS would struggle to process them all if the majority weren’t filed until the Oct. 15 deadline.
• Rettig, who took no questions from the ...