Certified mail to IRS in 2020? It may still be sitting in a trailer in the parking lot. 

Once, LONG AGO, I got a letter like that and I included a bill to the United States Treasury for the cost of replicating the return. I bet you can guess what happened. 

Maybe a few IRS folks got tired of looking at those trailers and just started shredding returns to help get caught up 😬

@sjrcpa @IRonMaN @George4Tacks thanks for the responses... I'm going to attach photocopy of the certified mail receipt and a copy of the original return.. I am also going to type a brief letter explaining this to them and have the client sign it in addition to my signature... Hopefully they will not process the return twice if and when they open up the original return envelope... I used to be able to go a whole year without any notices from the federal , state , or local entities... Not anymore...

"We had a client get a letter saying the IRS lost their 2019 amended tax return (paper filed) and to please resubmit it."

How did they know they had it and then lost it?  Sounds like one that made that shredding pile 😁

@IRonMaN between this and the phone calls that we are now getting for delayed refunds  it is not turning out to be a banner year... And I don't think next year is going to be any better...

I don't know how they knew. Since employees are working from home, maybe the dog ate it before the employee finished?

@sjrcpa @IRonMaN I wonder if they have a log of incoming mail, especially if it is certified mail, where they just record basic information... Sort of similar to how we login a client when they drop off their data in tax season... Just wondering...

I don't know. Maybe they do.

If they do, hopefully the log is put in a safe place so their dog doesn't eat it.

@IRonMaN @sjrcpa @George4Tacks just read an article emailed to me... IRS is encouraging nonprofit entities to file electronically if they have not yet filed , ,for returns like 990-ez, ETC.... Article states that IRS is having processing issues with forms filed manually related to nonprofit or tax-exempt entities... if anyone needs details of the rest of the article please let me know...

I thought it was mandatory for nonprofits now. 

Me two.  Or is it to?  Or is it too?

Nevermind - me three.  (that solves that issue 😬)

@sjrcpa it is now mandatory for form 990... Not sure about form 990-ez since I don't file that form... The article also mentioned another form , it may have been the form dealing with tax-exempt status, but I'm not sure

@IRonMaN @sjrcpa @George4Tacks client cannot find the certified mail receipt so I asked him to look for the postage receipt... Not sure what I'm going to do if he cannot find proof of mailing.. Not sure if I should just wait for the IRS to find the original return... What do you guys think?

Do you think client really mailed it?

@sjrcpa  yeah I think they did mail it... the quartermaster for this veterans organization is very straightforward and I do not think he would lie to me... They have been a longtime client...

@sjrcpa if they did not mail it then the penalty / interest will be substantial... Years ago a client, an ethnic Club, forgot to mail the 990 form in... The penalty / interest fee I believe was between $2,000 to $3,000... If my memory serves me right IRS ended up waiving the amount... Not sure if it was first-time forgiveness or not...

AMEN!!,my phone is ringing off the hook.some returns i filed 2 weeks ago have received

thier refunds, while others i filed 6 weeks ago are receiving the message return

is being processed

regards, LARRY

stay safe