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Here is an update from the same blog. I had to laugh about the reference to a lack of enclosure in the letter to IRS from Congress:
"We blogged on January 6 about the IRS practice of sending notices to individuals seeking to get them to file their 2020 return when the IRS had literally taken their check out of the envelope in which these individuals sent to the IRS their 2020 return. As we discussed in the post, this practice seemed wasteful both to the IRS and to taxpayers.
Yesterday, the IRS announced that it would stop this practice according to an article by Fred Stokeld in today’s Tax Notes edition. A small but nice step toward better and more efficient administration.
The Tax Notes article also reports, and includes, that a letter came from almost 200 members of Congress to the Secretary of Treasury yesterday increasing the pressure on the IRS to get rid of the backlog. Unfortunately, there have been no reports that a check was included with that letter. We all want to the IRS to fix the backlog and fix lots of other things but Congress needs to do more than send letters. It would be nice if it also sent some more money, though even that will not provide an immediate fix.
The letter did request that the IRS take a number of specific steps to provide relief while it works its way through the backlog. Many of those steps would provide meaningful relief:" (see link)
