IRS Should Do More to Provide Taxpayer Relief, Tax Pros Say

The Internal Revenue Service could go still further in providing relief to taxpayers during this filing season, tax and accounting professional groups said Thursday.

The IRS’s announcement “signals their desire to help taxpayers, but we believe that there is more they can do and respectfully disagree with the IRS’s assertion that congressional action is needed to suspend the automatic issuance of notices,” AICPA President and CEO Barry Melancon said in a statement.

• A coalition that includes the AICPA, Latino Tax Pros, National Association of Black Accountants, Inc. and other tax professional groups has been urging the IRS to suspend ...