Their budget should reflect this reality. Modernization This is the first filing season since the IRS finished its business reorganization. The purpose behind this complex and expensive undertaking is to organize the IRS around its customers so that they can better respond to the needs and track non-compliance of particular taxpayer groups. The incredible number of taxpayers and professionals visiting and using this site attests to the needs it has met. We hope to see it expanded and that other divisions will embrace this concept of providing information out where taxpayers and tax practitioners can access it easily.
More forms are capable of being e-filed than ever before.
Two hundred NAEA members are currently working with the IRS on a secure messaging system pilot program. It has taken longer than we expected for a variety of reasons, among them security concerns and the meshing of various computer systems and software, but this has been a project to which NAEA has been committed for a long time. It is meeting certain needs effectively for the practitioner community and we are gratified with the progress made thus far. The Communications and Public Liaison effort at IRS has been greatly enhanced. We are seeing the leveraging of the information systems of practitioner groups, the small business community and other business organizations to inform and advise the public on a broad range of issues.