If you have unfiled returns, read this one twice

The man running the IRS stood up at a conference on October 29th and called his new toy a gift.

A gift to government, that is. Not to you.

The toy is “super intelligence,” what Washington now calls AI because apparently AI didn't sound scary enough.

And IRS CEO Frank Bisignano had this to say about what it will do for the agency in 2027:

“The things that would have taken five years will get done in one year.”

I did not catch this myself. My colleague Stephen Weisberg did. Stephen is a tax attorney who spends his days cleaning up ugly IRS problems, and he wrote about it this week.

He also reports Bisignano saying the IRS reaches about 3 percent of the opportunity in front of it today, and that this technology takes it to 100 percent. 

Stephen’s guess at what that means in plain English?  

More liens, more levies, faster collection notices. 

Here is why I am telling you.

Stephen is not some lone voice yelling on LinkedIn. What he wrote is what I heard many times at the Tax Rep Network, and from quite a few former IRS employees saying very similar thing.

I was honored to be one of the speakers at this event, alongside attorneys, CPAs, and enrolled agents learning more about tax resolution.

These are the people who deal with the IRS for a living. And this is what is on their minds.

When the people who fight the IRS every day are all saying the same thing, I pay attention. You should too.

Because if you owe, here is the dirty little secret about the last few years.
 

The IRS did not leave you alone because it forgave you. It left you alone because nobody had time to open your file.

That was never mercy. It was a staffing problem.

And a machine does not have a staffing problem. It does not go on vacation or get buried under a stack of other people’s cases.

The balance that sat untouched for three years gets looked at in 2027, and it gets looked at fast.

It gets better. (For them.)

Stephen says that this year he has talked to IRS reps who were hired for IT and HR jobs and had never opened the Internal Revenue Manual and I conquor because I have spoken to same people trying to teach them the rules.

That is the IRS’s own rulebook for how it is supposed to treat you.

So you have a faster machine up front and greener people answering the phones behind it.

When collections speed up, the mistakes speed up right along with them.

Guess who gets to prove the mistake.

Meanwhile, penalties and interest keep piling onto your balance every single day, same as always.

The only thing changing is how long you get to hide in the pile. And you have a lot more options before a levy hits than after.

2027 is about seven weeks out.

You can spend those weeks hoping the machine skips you. Or you can find out exactly where you stand: what the IRS says you owe, what it can do about it, and what your real options are.

Diagnose first. Resolve second.

That starts here: TaxDebtTriage.com 

Or call my office at 909-570-1103.

Carlos Samaniego, EA
The Tax Debt Detective
Tax Debt Consultants 

P.S. Credit where it is due. Stephen Weisberg spotted this one, and he is right. The IRS told the whole world its plan out loud. Most people who owe will not hear it until the notice shows up.