The Inside Income Service is enhancing the accessibility of its types, publications and correspondence to blind and visually disabled taxpayers on account of the settlement in a lawsuit introduced by the Nationwide Federation of the Blind.
The settlement, which was reached in July 2020, requires the IRS to supply sure of its types and publications in different formatting for visually impaired taxpayers. The IRS has been increasing its efforts through the years to enhance its array of types and publications in a number of languages, together with American Signal Language.
Nevertheless, the settlement prompted the IRS to create Type 9000, Various Media Choice, which permits a taxpayer to elect to obtain sure sorts of written correspondence, within the following codecs:
- Massive Print;
- Braille;
- Audio (MP3);
- Plan textual content file (TXT); or
- Braille-ready file (BRF).
Nationwide Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins hailed the enhancements in a weblog submit final week. “These welcome modifications will make the IRS extra accessible to visually impaired taxpayers and is one more step towards making certain all taxpayers could have equal entry to data concerning their taxes and their rights as taxpayers,” she wrote. “It additionally demonstrates the IRS’s purpose of enhancing taxpayer service for all taxpayers.”
The Inside Income Service constructing in Washington, DC.
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