Taxpayers May Be Eligible for Significant Tax Refunds – If They Act by July 10

I'll save everybody else 120s: if you didn't get penalized for filing your taxes late during covid, move on.

> Without IRS or congressional action, outcomes may unfairly favor the “well advised” over the “unaware.”

Part of the governments job should be to make sure those with expensive advisors do not end up much better off than those who do their own taxes with little knowledge of tax law.

The purpose of taxes is not to tax the dumb extra.

> A Practical Challenge: Paper Is Still the IRS’s Kryptonite

Please just give us the prompt.

> For COVID-19, a federal disaster declaration was in effect from January 20, 2020, through May 11, 2023. [...] As noted, tens of millions of taxpayers have been assessed penalties or interest for late filings or payments during these years.

I'm a little surprised that many people are late with their tax filings.

I have a vague recollection of being charged a penalty I didn't agree with and arguing with the IRS about it during the pandemic.

I couldn't tell you what or how much it was for now though.

https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov

I can't tell if this is trying to seem fake.

> The IRS should quickly develop a means to allow taxpayers to file their claims electronically and implement it immediately. The IRS and taxpayers do not need paper Forms 843 clogging up the system.

This is potentially the most usful AI slop blog post I've ever read.