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See exception in paragraph 2. Home IRM Part8 8. Part 8. Appeals Chapter 1. Appeals Function Section 8. Employee Tax Compliance. Program Scope and Objectives. Program Reports. Terms and Acronyms. Related Resources.

This IRM section is the primary source of guidance on this program. Also, see the following: IRM 1. Receiving ETC Cases.

Note: See IRM 8. Note: Due to the sensitive nature of these cases, they can only be assigned to Appeals employees pre-approved to work them. Working ETC Cases. Note: Due to the sensitive nature of these cases, Appeals employees are prohibited from identifying the case in the "Notes" section of ACDS or in any other way as an employee audit case.

Requesting Computations. Installment Agreements. Closing ETC Cases. If the Refund Inquiry Unit is located in another building, ensure the checks are sealed in an envelope and placed in a lockable canvas bag or container, or double wrapped and double sealed in opaque paper envelope or box. Management Reviews. Managerial reviews by the supervisor must be conducted and documented at least quarterly to ensure adherence to internal controls for the security of the returned refund checks forwarded to Refund Inquiry on Form , Document Transmittal.

Management may, at its discretion, conduct these managerial reviews at more frequent intervals. The review should ensure all Forms sent to Refund Inquiry are received back and acknowledged with a signature from the appropriate Refund Inquiry official.

This subsection provides general guidance for only a few basic scenarios relative to Payment Perfection IDRS research. Refer to these instructions in the absence of the IAT macro for payment research. Also, in this subsection are a few IDRS command codes that are required to be researched in order to apply a payment accurately. This is not an all-inclusive list. It is intended only to provide a basic point to begin payment research.

There will be situations when more extensive research may be required, for example, the procedures outlined in IRM 3. The job aids on this site are viewable and easily printed.

If the taxpayer indicates an IRC payment but only makes out one check, that will also be sent to the campus with the Lockbox Unprocessables for processing. If the taxpayer sends in two checks but the Lockbox bank cannot determine which payment is for the IRC payment, both payments will be sent to the campus with the Lockbox Unprocessables. If the payment is received with an extension, pull the extension and batch as a non-remittance to ensure the extension is processed.

A Payment Posting Voucher must be prepared whenever a source document is not available, and the payment cannot be processed through ISRP. A list of payment posting vouchers follows:. Form , Payment Posting Voucher. The receiving Campus must deposit the remittance at their Campus timely and then transship the credit and return to the Kansas City campus. The Accounting Operation performs the transshipment.

The out of area receiving campus must deposit the remittance at their campus and then transship the return to the correct processing campus. When remittance processing is complete, transship the return or document to the appropriate campus. Payment Perfection will route or fax to the Entity Function to establish the Entity.

If a remittance is received with Form GS D-1 , this is a non-remittance return. Form D remittances are NMF and processed as follows:. When sending to Entity ensure the taxpayer name, Name Control and current home address are provided. You may receive from the taxpayer an extension filed for Form series on Form or a letter requesting an extension. If correspondence is received regarding interest on distribution, route to Manual Processing as NMF:. Individuals self-dealer, disqualified persons, foundation managers for a personal tax liability.

If Part II-A is blank and information needed to process the payment is on attached documentation, edit in the appropriate column and lines of Part II-A, the information TINs and amounts needed to process the payment. Annotate "photocopy sent to EO Accounts request" in the left margin of the original Form s A. For a subsequent payment, process as:. More than one Form can post to the same module. Use one of the Forms as the payment posting voucher, then batch the forms as remit documents.

A NMF Form is one that is for tax period or older. When the Form is received with other documents, route as follows:. If scanners are unavailable, process through ISRP using program The over-the-counter version of Form V may be used at the option of any individual taxpayer who has a balance due. If Form V is attached to a current year Form , move the Form V to the back of Form and process as a true form through the 7-day grace period after April 15 July for of each year.

A prior year Form V, including the over-the-counter version, is an imperfect document. If so, process the payment as a TC because it is after the posting of the return. If not, post all prior year Form V vouchers with TC When a loose Schedule H is received with payment, assume it is for an IMF account unless the word "Trust" or "Estate" is written in the name line area of the Schedule H. Process the remittance using applicable procedures above. Form , U. Return of Partnership Income, is an information return.

When received with remittance and there is no other indication of payment application, post to MFT 06 using TC and process Form as non-remittance. If form s are attached and remittance matches or adds up to balance due IRS on forms , process remittance with balance due forms. Process Form as non-remittance. The remittance will be processed to the partnership BMF as follows:. If Form is received with remittance, and is tax year or prior; and the top of the form is annotated "Publicly Traded Partnership" or "PTP" or "3.

The remittance will be processed to the partnership NMF as follows:. For tax year only , certain partnerships who did not use all of their Qualified Therapeutic Discovery Credit grant were to repay the unused amount by completing Form and entering the amount in the right margin near line 22 with the notation "QTDP" or "Qualified Therapeutic Discover Credit" on the Form return.

If a remittance is received for the replacement of a dishonored check, process the Form CG as a TC Edit the following if not present:. Form , if received without Form , apply payment to the taxpayers' account and process through ISRP using:.

If a Form is received without Form and there is insufficient information to post the payment to the taxpayers' account, prepare Form in duplicate and apply the credit to Unidentified. If there is no indication of how to apply the payment, use as source document and process through ISRP:.

Tax Period and Plan Number. If Form EZ is received with remittance and Form is attached to the oldest tax period, keep the package together. Apply payment to the correct tax period. Other than Form being attached, these can also be identified by "Delinquent Return Filed under Rev. Tax period and Plan Number. NMF screen print of transcript for Form Account for and prior years must be attached to Form Form and copy of the return is not valid supporting documentation.

Transship Form and supporting documentation per Exhibit 3. Verify which form the extension is being filed for. A three-digit Plan Number must be present. Form or Form C received with checks made payable to "U. An exempt organization is one which meets the exemption status based on many factors contained within the groups charter of organization.

These are all processed at the Ogden Submission Processing Campus. Apply the full amount of the payment to the taxpayer's account using the appropriate payment Transaction Code. If a payment is received with a Form and the Exempt Organization box is not checked, route the payment to the address referenced in IRM 3.

If a payment is received with Form research and apply accordingly. Remittances received with Form , with or without correspondence, should be returned to taxpayer with Letter C.

If remittance is greater than the amount shown for User Fees, deposit the entire remittance and apply the excess amount to taxes due. Send Letter C to taxpayer for notification. Remittances received for Examination User Fees, with Form A from field offices should be processed using the following procedures. Process them using the following procedures:. Encode remittances. Prepare Form in triplicate. If a payment is received with Form , research and apply accordingly. Send form to Ogden for processing.

If user fee payment is received with correspondence and no form, prepare payment posting voucher, green rocker deposit amount and apply payment with TC , MFT 67, and to the current tax period. Form is sometimes received with a remittance. The remittance should be returned back to the taxpayer along with Letter C.

Taxpayers who are requesting letter ruling, determination letters and opinion letters from the IRS are subject to a user fee for this service. Examples of such instances are as follows:. For this determination letter request, a user fee is charged.

Before the Act, there was only the authority to suspend or disbar a practitioner from practice before the IRS. This monetary penalty is processed under Title 31 U. The volume is minimal. OPR will secure the payment from the practitioner, firm, or entity and prepare Form A.

Gov, however, paper checks may be received from the taxpayer. If the taxpayer makes a payment through Pay. Form C , U. Campuses other than Austin that receive these forms with payment may use the form as the source document. Process the remittance and Form C:.

When remittance processing is completed, transship Form C and all attachments to Austin using transmittal Form Form NR, U. Campuses that receive these forms with payment may use the form as the source document.

When remittance processing is completed, transship Form NR and all attachments to Austin using Form These payments will be processed by the Kansas City Campus. Statement identifying the payment as the first, second and third installment; or a statement that the taxpayer elects to pay the entire amount in a single installment.

Each memorandum must be signed. If a memorandum is not received with the payment, contact the taxpayer. Deposit to Account Symbol Process using Account Symbol , Miscellaneous Receipts.

After processing send Form to Accounting with the deposit package. Criminal restitution payments received at sites other than Kansas City SPC must be transshipped by overnight traceable method to the following address:.

When multiples need to be processed, follow procedures below. When processing payments manually, run an adding machine tape to ensure the deposit is balanced prior to release.

Edit "M" and the number of remittances in the upper left-hand corner of all remittances and the document. If a Form or equivalent needs to be prepared, edit the original document and route to the appropriate function as non-remittance.

Follow the above instructions to process the remittances. If split consists of more than 50, edit the remittance only. Route to ISRP labeled as "splits. Remittance that under paid the balance due subtract the difference from the most current year taxes owed, edit the amount to the left of the balance due line.

On the same tape list check amounts and total. Both totals must equal. These instructions are to provide processing procedures for depositing single check remittances in excess of 50 million dollars. It is imperative that we strive to receive same day credit when these remittances are received.

These large dollar remittances must be deposited on the day of receipt, when received before your depositary's same day credit cutoff time. When remittances are received after your depositary cutoff time, they must be deposited as soon as the depositary opens on the next business day.

Upon receipt of this remittance, the designated Deposit Unit employee must telephone the appropriate depositary contact listed in IRM 3. FRB St. Louis Customer Service hours are a. If you deposit a check after the above hours you must call them the next day to report the check information. Also, upon receipt of this remittance, the Receipt and Control Operations Chief or designated Deposit Unit employee must send an e-mail with the Submission Processing campus location i.

Prepare Form in duplicate, one copy will be attached to the back of Form T. Form T can be used in lieu of Form Verify that Form T does not have a report number on line 4. If a report number is entered by the taxpayer circle it out before doing research. If no prior return is posted with the same tax period in the valid range, edit a report number of Valid range is The FCP is a claim for refundable credit and normally is not received with a payment.

The IPD determines the tax period. If a remittance is received in a campus other than OSPC use the following process:. Ogden, UT Route Form , Form or Form as non-remittance to the Batching Function after deposit processing. Form will be processed to the Business Master File. The first valid BMF tax period for Form is Form is also the transmittal for Form A.

Please click here for the text description of the image. There are no filing requirements for Form In addition, the tax period for Form is based on the "Date of Transfer" of when the U. Apply the payment to the month and year of the Date of Transfer on Line 3 unless a withholding certificate letter is attached.

If attached, use the letter date of the withholding certificate approved or rejected as the new Date of Transfer. Taxpayer "A" can file a Form every other month for the purchased USRPI from a foreign person or entity , , , , , , etc.

Payments for foreign withholding under Section Foreign Investment Real Property Tax Act remitted without Form should be processed to tax accounts in the same manner as if the form was submitted. Attach all correspondence to the posting document. Prepare Form when received without a Form Green rocker the remittance amount on the balance due line. If the balance due line is different than the remittance amount, edit that figure in green in the upper right corner of the Form.

If Form is attached to Form and Form shows the partnership entity information on Lines 1 and 2, leave the Form attached to Form Form is a quarterly installment payment voucher used by partnerships with foreign partners to pay their quarterly Section tax. If Form has Form C or correspondence attached, transship the Form voucher and the attachments to Philadelphia Exam after the payment has been processed.

Philadelphia PA List each remittance on Form Prepare a daily log to track receipts from NCS. The copies should be sent no later than the 10th calendar day after the end of the month.

The return is due by the 90th day following the taxable transfer. The due date of the return is dependent on the Section as follows:. Whenever a check is received with a Form EZ it should be returned to the taxpayer along with the EZ. Use Letter to return the check and form to the taxpayer. The following information must be entered in fillable fields:. In the body of the letter use the line "We stamped your user fee payment "Non-Negotiable" for your protection.

Standard Signature and Title for letters sent to taxpayers by Receipt and Control when returning checks. Make a copy of the edited Form , attach envelop to the copy, then route copy of Form and payment to Manual Deposit for processing. Send original Form to Batching. These returns can be identified by the notation "Relief Procedure for Certain Former Citizens" written on the top of the income tax return. Taxpayers are advised not to remit payments with these returns. This subsection includes instructions for processing Amended Returns and Remittances received with Correspondence.

BMF forms amended, additional, duplicate, superseding, supplemental, corrected, or revised will be used as a source document for ISRP processing. A DPC is not necessary when a remittance is received for a previously filed amended return with or without a copy of the original. When the taxpayer annotates Form with the literal , "Amended" , "Duplicate" , "Copy" , "Substitute" , "Tentative" , "Superseding" , "Corrected" , or "Revised" it should be considered amended and used as a source document for ISRP processing.

IRC does not apply to employment taxes. Remittance received with completed Form A from Examination Branch which is designated as an IRC deposit must indicate appropriate application for each Tax Period. Process through ISRP. Look for indication on the check or otherwise stated by the taxpayer when making payments for backup withholding.

Before , backup withholding was reported on Form For and prior, apply to the taxpayer's Form Remittance received with Form should be processed using TC Notice CG is a civil penalty proposal notice.

Payments may be received in response to this notice, but there will be no assessment on the Master File. Process remittances as follows:. If a payment is received without Notice CG, but there is an indication that the payment is in response to the Notice CG, prepare Form or equivalent and post the payment as stated above.

Payments may be received with a Letter payment voucher. Letter is a Dyed Fuel Penalty 30 day letter. If there is a reference to TC with or without a reference code on the voucher, post the payment as a TC Ensure correspondence is timely, accurate, professional in tone and responsive to taxpayer needs.

As pertaining to this particular IRM for depositing, posting taxpayer payments and corresponding with taxpayers, Categories 2, 3 and 8 of the TBOR should always be adhered to. Those three categories state the following:. Taxpayers have the right to receive prompt, courteous, and professional assistance in their dealings with the IRS, to be spoken to in a way they can easily understand, to receive clear and easily understandable communications from the IRS, and to speak to a supervisor about inadequate service.

Taxpayers have the right to pay only the amount of tax legally due, including interest and penalties, and to have the IRS apply all tax payments properly. Taxpayers have the right to expect that any information they provide to the IRS will not be disclosed unless authorized by the taxpayer or by law.

Taxpayer Generated Correspondence. This includes taxpayer requests for information as well as that which may accompany a tax return; responses to IRS requests for information; and annotated notice responses. Examples of other taxpayer generated correspondence are:. Correspondence may be used as a source document. Ensure correspondence is stamped with Campus received date. Edit the following information in green if it is not present:.

Route to appropriate area after check has been run through Transport and electronic voucher has been created. On occasion, taxpayers or businesses send duplicate copies of correspondence requesting acknowledgment of receipt.

Date stamp duplicate copy of correspondence with Campus' received date and return to the taxpayer in envelope provided or prepare envelope. Destroy duplicate copy if not requesting any action to be taken.

Because campus configurations are dissimilar, the location of correspondence analysis within the processing stream must be determined by Receipt and Control.

Refer to routing information in IRM 3. Any statements of dissatisfaction, "questioning," "? Computer generated Campuses SC letters can be used as source documents, if: Letter does not request taxpayer information or require further action. Information needed to process a source document is printed on the SC letter. Batch separately by year and form, and edit for processing through ISRP as follows:. If multiple remittances are received follow procedures in IRM 3. When CP 59 or CP is received with remittance and no return is posted, input a TC for the money amount and a TC to hold the credit and prevent the money from refunding until the return posts.

For and prior years, process as NMF. For and subsequent years, process as BMF. If last page of CP is missing and correspondence or Form X is attached, cover upper right hand corner with a self-adhesive label. Edit in green the following items if not present:.

Edit the following in green if not present:. If the taxpayer sent in an old notice and the assessment has already posted, post the payment with TC Process with TC if the Assessment has posted and the taxpayer sent in an old notice. EUR CP cases should be safe guarded, handled by as few employees as possible, discussed only with individuals specifically involved in processing and immediately accessible at any point during processing.

If the taxpayer responds by paying the potential penalty amount, that amount must be credited to MFT 13 where the penalty assessment will be made. See the top right hand corner of the notice or letter issued. These forms should be worked as current. No envelope or date stamp is required.

Detach all correspondence, write remittance amount, received date and route to appropriate function.

When fiscal month is shown, the name must contain the word "Estate" ; otherwise, treat as a calendar year. No envelope and no date stamp are required. Public Law allows taxpayers to receive an automatic six month extension of time to file Form with the approval of Form Deposit completes a secondary sort after Extraction to ensure proper sorting of Form revision and prior for both Perfect and Imperfect forms.

Form is designated for Form and for Form Form revision pertain solely to Form Approve Form if timely filed or timely mailed. Consider Form timely filed when received by the 15th day, or first working day afterward when the 15th day of April July for falls on a weekend or holiday. Consider timely mailed when the postmark date is on or before the due date of April 15 July 15 for All fiscal year Form must be date stamped.

If not, do so by postmark date. Form revision and prior designated for both a Form and Form one or more boxes in Part II are checked or there is an amount in Part IV , make a photocopy two if both the "Yourself and Spouse" boxes are checked in Part II of Form and process as follows:.

If one remittance is received for both Form and Form extensions, please refer to 13 below. Route imperfect Form s revision and prior , extensions for Form , and all Form s, extensions for Form , to Payment Perfection Unit. Form is imperfect if the SSN is missing or incomplete. If possible, use attachments to perfect. If unable to perfect, refer to IRM 2. Amended, second, subsequent, copy or duplicate Form should be edited as such. After deposit processing forward forms to the Batching Function.

If an account has not been established, route to the Entity Function to establish the account. After April 22nd, if Form has Box 8 checked, follow procedures in 13 below. DO NOT destroy form. Please route deposit complete form to the Batching Function. For a calendar year return, this would be June The taxpayer may write "Taxpayer Abroad" across the top of Form to be considered as out of the country.

Taxpayers check a Box on Line 8 which says, "Check here if you are out of the country and a U. Approve "Out of the Country" Form if timely filed.

The is considered timely filed when received by the 15th day of June, or first working day afterwards when the 15th falls on a weekend or holiday. Refer to IRM Exhibit 3. Disapprove "Out of the Country" Form if not timely filed. If Box 9 is checked on Form , consider timely filed if postmarked by June 15th, or the first working day afterwards when the 15th falls on a weekend or holiday.

See IRM Exhibit 3. Follow payment processing instructions in IRM 3. Form is considered timely filed when received by the 15th day of April, or first working day when the 15th falls on a weekend or holiday. If the box in Part II is checked, or if there are entries on Form , and it is attached to the Form V, route for further processing.

Income Tax Return for U. Citizens and Resident Aliens abroad who expect to qualify for special tax treatment. These forms are processed at OSPC. Some Businesses may file a separate Form for an automatic six month extension of the following:. When this happens, follow Canceled Check procedures. When substitute applications for extension of time to file are received, use substitute extension as source document. Follow procedures in IRM 3. If application of the payment cannot be determined, follow Unidentified Remittance procedures in IRM 3.

The payment should be returned to the taxpayer. The payment appears to have been made in response to our sending you a Form [??? Form [??? Therefore, no payment is required. Taxes for ozone depleting chemicals may also be referred to as abstracts "19" , "20" or "98" and are identified as items 19, 20 or 98 on Form , Quarterly Federal Excise Tax return.

Remittances received indicating repayment of erroneous refunds for ozone depleting chemicals; refer to IRM 3. Remittances received with or without Form , indicating payment is for ozone depleting chemicals, process as follows:. If the return was received Dec. If the return was received after Dec. If the Statute of Limitations is in jeopardy, payments require special consideration. The Statute of Limitations is 2 years and 10 months from the normal due date of return.

Use TC only. Send the check and posting document to ISRP. After processing route the return to Statue Control Group same day as received. If the literal "RD" is circled and the return is signed or notation of signed jurat on the "Sign here" line, route to Statute, if imminent.

If there is no "TC 59X" edited on the return, but the literal "Process as Original" is edited, route to Statute if it meets Statute criteria. After processing, route the return for transshipment no later than the following business day.

Account , Miscellaneous Revenue Collections, or the "Conscience Fund" , should be credited when remittances are received from taxpayers that are not assessable on their accounts. This account should be credited when any of the following are received:. A majority of these payments are anonymous. A letter or note with no signature and no indication that the remittance is for the Conscience Fund, and there is insufficient information on the remittance or envelope to identify the taxpayer.

When a remittance is received that should be deposited in the "Conscience Fund" , process the remittance using the following procedures:. Once remittances have been finalized and balanced through the transport, the total deposit will print on a OTCnet A Deposit Ticket under the appropriate account symbol.

Requests are reviewed for completeness and proper fee. Rejected requests should be returned to the proper recipient within three days of IRS receipt. Form , T and T EZ should be processed at the campus it is received. Do Not transship to another campus. See Transshipping guidelines in RM 3. Fees are only required at this time for "copies of tax forms. Therefore, deposit of fees for unprocessable requests should be avoided. Requests with "live" fees should not be removed from the secured area of Receipt and Control.

Forward copy of Form with the deposit ticket to Accounting. Accounting Packages from field offices may transship including Form , or Form with remittances for processing. Prior to deposit, each request for photocopy must be reviewed for correct payment and completeness, otherwise refer to Unidentified Remittances procedures, IRM 3.

Do not reject a full paid copy request if it is for a tax form and year that may have been destroyed, per records holding or collection statute guidelines, without first researching to determine availability. Unless payment is received, provide copies of tax forms free of charge in the following cases shown in the table below.

These are always low-income taxpayers. Since most lenders will accept "account information" which is free of charge, requests for copies should be few. All requests must be complete before they can be processed, regardless of how the request is received. Each request must contain all information needed to be complete on the form or correspondence. The taxpayer's signature or authorized person's signature must be on the request document to provide authorization for disclosure.

Do not send information to a third party whose name and address is not listed on the authorization signed by the taxpayer. If there is a TIN on the request, and you can determine the digits are simply "mixed," continue processing. Do not use attachments to perfect third party requests. Third party requests are requests where there is information in Item 5 of Form , or where the taxpayer is telling IRS to send information to someone else on correspondence.

Review for completeness per IRM 3. Regulation If a request is rejected directly to the requester, it is not necessary to stamp check "Non-Negotiable.

Ensure Form , Record of Discovered Remittances, is annotated "return to taxpayer" and initialed by the manager prior to mailing. All rejected requests identified during preprocessing should be returned to the taxpayer listed in the "current address" provided in Block 3 on the Form If the "current address" is not listed in Block 3 of Form There are several additional ways to address adjustments to the employment taxes you reported on your return.

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