{"id":621,"date":"2016-04-21T06:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T11:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/?p=621"},"modified":"2016-04-08T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T18:30:17","slug":"internal-revenue-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/internal-revenue-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Internal Revenue Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164404_original.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-623\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-623\" src=\"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164404_original-329x500.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful Middle aged Woman in a Black dress\" width=\"329\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164404_original-329x500.jpg 329w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164404_original-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164404_original-680x1034.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164404_original-300x456.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164404_original-940x1429.jpg 940w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164404_original.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a>The Internal Revenue Service has made many changes in recent years, improving tax processing systems, increasing electronic filing and payment options, and expanding services available on IRS.gov for taxpayers and tax professionals. But the needs of taxpayers, the tax community and the nation continue to rapidly evolve, and it&#8217;s clear the IRS needs to look at the future in a more comprehensive way.<\/p>\n<p>In February of this year, the IRS released a &#8220;working draft&#8221; of their plans for the future in the following initiatives.<\/p>\n<h4>Compliance Risk Management<\/h4>\n<p>Establish ongoing activities to assess and anticipate compliance risks for taxpayer segments and develop process for prioritization of identified issues for treatment.<\/p>\n<h4>Taxpayer Behavior Analytics<\/h4>\n<p>Conduct ongoing analysis of taxpayer behavior to identify problem areas and support development and implementation of behavioral levers to drive higher levels of compliance, self-correction, and use of more efficient channels.<\/p>\n<h4>Taxpayer Outreach<\/h4>\n<p>Communicate common compliance issues, provide published guidance based on previous taxpayer behavior, increase public awareness of enhanced IRS capabilities, and encourage feedback directly to the IRS and through our stakeholder partners.<\/p>\n<h4>Channel Optimization<\/h4>\n<p>Optimize service channel processes, technology, and capacity and transition taxpayers to the most efficient and effective service channels to enable the most efficient resolution of inquiries.<\/p>\n<h4>Taxpayer Online Account<\/h4>\n<p>Expand ability for taxpayers and authorized third parties to securely obtain taxpayer information, make payments, resolve compliance issues, share documentation, and self-correct issues in an individualized, online account.<\/p>\n<h4>Data-Centric Processing<\/h4>\n<p>Transition paper-based documents (taxpayer facing and internal) to a digital format, including digital options for submitting and modifying relevant forms and data and digitizing case files and employee documentation.<a href=\"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164412_original.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-625\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-625\" src=\"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164412_original-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful Middle aged Woman curled up in a big chair\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164412_original-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164412_original-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164412_original-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164412_original-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_8164412_original-940x627.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Accelerated Information Documents<\/h4>\n<p>Accelerate the collection and processing of taxpayer data from employers, financial institutions, and other third parties to reduce lag time between filing and document matching.<\/p>\n<h4>Data Sharing and Analytics<\/h4>\n<p>Facilitate and\/ or enhance partnerships with government entities to promote timely and secure data sharing. Information would be used to enhance issue identification and identify outreach topics that promote voluntary compliance.<\/p>\n<h4>Issue Detection &amp; Classification<\/h4>\n<p>Enhance the ability to rapidly detect non-compliance (including non-filers) from a variety of sources and align to the most appropriate treatment stream.<\/p>\n<h4>Workload Management<\/h4>\n<p>Organize work and integrate new workforce planning to address the greatest non-compliance and continue to realign work portfolio as compliance needs shift.<\/p>\n<h4>Exam Optimization<\/h4>\n<p>Identify transformational ways to increase the efficiency of resources in exam and use Future State capabilities to focus on high potential cases without sacrificing quality.<\/p>\n<h4>Collection Optimization<\/h4>\n<p>Optimize collection activities through process, technology, and workforce transformations to resolve collection cases earlier and with more efficient resources (e.g., \u201cnext best case\u201d).<\/p>\n<h4>Mission Impact and Evaluation<\/h4>\n<p>Analyze performance measures on programs affecting employee engagement and develop related strategies to address opportunities identified to support the workforce.<\/p>\n<h4>Enterprise Collaboration<\/h4>\n<p>Provide access to and promote tools, resources, and information (through knowledge management) to the workforce to support cross-organization collaboration and best use of resources.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_12663594_original.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-627\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-627\" src=\"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_12663594_original-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Gorgeous Middle Aged Woman\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_12663594_original-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_12663594_original-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_12663594_original-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_12663594_original-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Depositphotos_12663594_original-940x627.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Workforce Planning<\/h4>\n<p>Identify current workforce capabilities and skill gaps through competency management and help employees achieve requisite skills through their performance management plans.<\/p>\n<h4>Enhanced Career Development<\/h4>\n<p>Enhance employee development with ongoing, near-term performance feedback and provide transparency and predictability into the requirements and expectations for the spectrum of career tracks through workforce development and training.<\/p>\n<h4>Optimize Internal Operations Service Delivery<\/h4>\n<p>Further optimize support organizations, including Administrative Pool, Business Systems Planning, Human Capital Office, Research, and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).<\/p>\n<h4>Consolidate Underutilized Facilities: Reduce the Foot Print<\/h4>\n<p>Consolidate nearby buildings with near-term lease expirations to increase usage rates and account for decreasing space requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service has made many changes in recent years, improving tax processing systems, increasing electronic filing and payment options, and expanding services available on IRS.gov for taxpayers and tax professionals. 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