You’ve Got Mail (from the IRS)—But What Happens When You Don’t?

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service sends millions of notices and letters to taxpayers.

According to the Taxpayer Advocate, from the time that the IRS shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic through June 2020, the agency generated more than 20 million notices for individual taxpayers. If you annualize those numbers, that would suggest that the IRS sends out at least 80 million notices to individual taxpayers.

Those notices are sent to taxpayers via the United States Postal Service (USPS). Taxpayers should be aware of this by now, since the IRS has spent countless hours—and dollars—reminding taxpayers ...