Jtaxpayers in United States should be aware that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is set to shut down its e-File system later this month. The IRS is currently accepting electronic filing of returns from individuals and businesses for this year, 2021, and 2020.
However, they have established an annual maintenance period called the e-filing shutdown or switchover schedule. Once a year they shut down the Modernized e-File (MeF) system which provides electronic filing and payment options to filers of corporate income tax, labor tax, estate and trust returns, excise tax, exempt organizations, individuals and partnerships.
Why is the IRS closing the e-File system?
This year, the IRS announced that it will shut down MeF on November 26, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. ET. They do this every year in order to prepare the MeF for the next tax year – in this case for the 2022 tax year filing season.
“Only “Send Submissions” for 1040 (both state and federal) will be affected by this shutdown, all other services such as “Get Acks” and all state services will be available after the shutdown,” reads- on in the IRS statement.
Meanwhile, the IRS has yet to announce the company’s closure for the 2021 tax year. They should do so in early December, as it typically begins at some point in the last month of the year. ‘year.
The IRS has also scheduled routine system maintenance, which takes place every Sunday from 12:01 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. ET.
“During this maintenance period, MeF will accept submissions but will not generate acknowledgments or process any state services such as Get Submissions, Send Acknowledgments, or Send Receipts,” their website states.
Status submissions can still be retrieved and processed using all service requests until the stop operations mentioned above. The IRS advises states to change their processing schedule so that contributions are collected in time to be verified and recognized.