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Issue Number:? 2023-28

Inside This Issue

1. Building on filing season 2023 success, IRS continues to improve service, pursue high-income individuals evading taxes, modernize technology
2. IRS begins special series of Community Assistance Visits while continuing to reopen closed Taxpayer Assistance Centers
3. IRS, Security Summit announce special summer series as Nationwide Tax Forums begin
4. IRS Nationwide Tax Forums head to Atlanta; Commissioner Werfel to deliver keynote address
5. Career opportunities at the IRS Independent Office of Appeals
6. Webinar: Employee Retention Credit

The IRS is continuing to build on its progress by focusing on critical work across the agency in achieving world-class service, strengthening enforcement against high-income individuals who do not pay taxes owed, and modernizing core technology infrastructure to enable better service and improve data security. The IRS is focused on efforts to help taxpayers get it right the first time, while delivering enhanced technology, mail-sorting, scanning and digitization capabilities. The IRS is working to ensure high income taxpayers pay the taxes they owe by focusing on making delinquent millionaires pay up, pursuing tax-evading millionaires and cracking down on millionaire non-filers.

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As part of an expanding effort to improve service, the Internal Revenue Service continues expanding Taxpayer Assistance Centers across the country while also starting a special series of events to help taxpayers located in areas not close to the agency?s in-person offices. In these new Community Assistance Visits, the IRS will set up a temporary Taxpayer Assistance Center to give taxpayers from underserved areas an opportunity to meet face-to-face with IRS assistors. This is part of a larger effort underway to transform the IRS and improve service to taxpayers as part of the new Strategic Operating Plan with funding made available through the Inflation Reduction Act.

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The IRS joined its Security Summit partners this week to announce the start of a special summer "Protect Your Clients; Protect Yourself" campaign aimed at ensuring tax professionals stay alert against new and ongoing threats of tax-related identity theft. The series will run for five consecutive weeks each Tuesday, coinciding with the start of the first IRS Nationwide Tax Forums in New Orleans. The news release series and the summer Tax Forums provide important information to help protect sensitive taxpayer data that tax professionals hold while also protecting their business from identity thieves.

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The IRS Nationwide Tax Forums continue on to their second stop of the summer ? Atlanta ? July 25-27. In addition to a wide-ranging agenda of more than 40 seminars for which you can earn up to 18 continuing education (CE) credits, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel will be at the Atlanta Tax Forum to deliver the keynote speech.

Tax pros who attend one of the remaining city locations of the IRS Nationwide Tax Forums will see a new series of special events, including sessions focused on practice management, the taxpayer experience, cybersecurity and a town hall meeting with the National Taxpayer Advocate. This summer?s four remaining IRS Nationwide Tax Forums take place at:

? Atlanta: July 25-27
? Washington, D.C. area: Aug. 8-10
? San Diego: Aug. 22-24
? Orlando: Aug. 29-31

For more information and to register, visit the IRS Nationwide Tax Forums website.

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The IRS Independent Office of Appeals is hiring Appeals Officers. This job announcement will remain open for 12 months, but selections can take place throughout the 12-month timeframe. An Appeals Officer has the responsibility for administratively resolving tax controversies brought before the IRS. They conduct research, hold conferences and negotiate issues with taxpayers and/or their representative to resolve tax disputes in a fair and impartial manner. The IRS offers a wealth of workplace flexibilities, highly competitive pay and benefits. We invite members of the tax pro community to share and consider applying for this exciting career opportunity.

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The upcoming webinar, Employee Retention Credit, takes place on July 25 at 2 p.m. ET. Certificates of completion will be offered to all participants who qualify. Tax professionals can earn up to two continuing education credits. Visit the Webinars for Tax Practitioners webpage for more information about the course and to register.

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