IRS Resource to Help You Understand IRS Notices and Letters

The IRS website contains a helpful page called Understanding Your IRS Notice or Letter. This page gives the taxpayer and/or tax preparer valuable information about the different notices and letters that the IRS may send to the taxpayer regarding a federal return that they filed with the IRS.

Here is what you will find:

• Listing and link to some of the more common IRS notices with information on:
• What the taxpayer needs to do
• What the taxpayer may want to do
• Answers to common questions
• Tips for next year
• Example of what the letter looks like
• Listing and link for some of the letters a taxpayer may receive which provides information on:
• What the letter is telling the taxpayer
• What the taxpayer needs to do
• What happens if the taxpayer takes no action
• Who the taxpayer should contact if they have questions
• A list of eight things every taxpayer should know if they receive a notice
• How to identify where the number of the notice is located on the notice
• Link to a list of other individual filer notices that the IRS may send regarding their tax return
• Link to a list of other business filer notices that the IRS may send a business regarding their tax return