The Internal Revenue Service is redesigning the roughly 170 million notices sent annually to individual taxpayers, the agency said this week.
The Simple Notice Initiative involves reviewing and redesigning hundreds of notices with an immediate focus on the most common notices. Work will accelerate in the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons for individuals and then expanding into business notices.
There are 31 redesigned notices available for this year’s tax season. About 20 million of such notices were sent in calendar year 2022. For filing season 2025, the 200 notices that make up 90 percent of the total volume sent to individuals will be reviewed and redesigned. The IRS said this represents about 150 million notices sent in 2022
Bob Scott has provided information to the tax and accounting community since 1991, first as technology editor of Accounting Today, and from 1997 through 2009 as editor of its sister publication, Accounting Technology. He is known throughout the industry for his depth of knowledge and for his high journalistic standards. Scott has made frequent appearances as a speaker, moderator and panelist and events serving tax and accounting professionals. He has a strong background in computer journalism as an editor with two former trade publications, Computer+Software News and MIS Week and spent several years with weekly and daily newspapers in Morris County New Jersey prior to that. A graduate of Indiana University with a degree in journalism, Bob is a native of Madison, Ind
