The Inner Income Service plans to shut its paper return processing middle in Fresno, California, completely on the finish of this month, so taxpayers and tax professionals in some Western states might want to start utilizing a brand new mailing handle.
The IRS has been experiencing lengthy delays in processing paper tax returns on account of the pandemic, so the closure doesn’t come at time for the company. Nevertheless, the closure was initially introduced in 2016 and is an element of a bigger, ongoing effectivity technique to regulate to the actual fact most taxpayers now file electronically.
The variety of particular person returns taxpayers filed electronically has elevated from 90 million in 2008 to over 145 million in 2020, or over 90% of all tax returns filed. The IRS anticipates the pattern will proceed for each particular person and non-individual returns.
IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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With the change, taxpayers situated in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Ohio and Washington state who beforehand filed their federal tax returns with Fresno ought to now mail their returns to the Ogden, Utah, processing middle.
The Ogden handle for submitting paper particular person returns is:
Division of Treasury
Inner Income Service
Ogden, UT 84201-0002
Fresno operations
The IRS plans to take care of a presence in Fresno with many different operations nonetheless working at full capability, however the impending consolidation will allow the IRS to streamline operations and make higher use of present area.
When the consolidation was introduced in September 2016, there have been roughly 3,000 staff who labored on the paper processing middle in Fresno. Since that point, the IRS mentioned it has taken steps to supply coaching and discover continued employment alternatives for most of the impacted staff. Others have chosen to retire or separate from the IRS.
The company can also be sustaining a Fresno submission processing consolidation replace web page on IRS.gov.