Available on IRS.gov the tool is useful to those who don't normally file a federal tax return and have not yet filed either a 2019 or 2020 return. The IRS says use of the tool can help users decide if they should register for the credit payments by using the Non-filer Sign-up Tool, or file a regular tax return using the IRS Free File system.

Materials in several languages and other multi-lingual resources will be released in the future. Materials in English and other languages are e posted on a special Advance Child Tax Credit 2021 page at IRS.gov/childtaxcredit2021.

Available resources include the filing:

A step-by-step guide to using the Non-filer Sign-up Tool (Publication 5538) in Spanish, Chinese Simplified, Korean, Vietnamese, Haitian Creole and Russian;                               AA basic You Tube video on the Advance Child Tax Credit in Spanish, Chinese and English’                                                                                                                                             E-posters in various languages;                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Information about Free File in seven languages.

Bob Scott

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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