Next week, the IRS will begin the “toe-dipping” process of unveiling what it hopes to become a new kind of IRS.
On December 8, the IRS will hold the first of several planned public meetings to gather feedback from tax professsionals and the public about the IRS’s plan to move away the traditional “look back” model of tax enforcement to a model more geared to “real time” correction of errors and enforcement.
The goal put forth by the IRS to increase the “real time” matching of tax returns with information that the IRS has about the taxpayer and the taxpayer’s tax liability to enable mistakes and errors made by the taxpayer to be corrected quickly, even before the return is accepted by the IRS.
The first public meeting this coming week will have on the panel representatives of consumer groups, the tax professional community, and government.
Other public meetings will take place in 2012.