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twowrist t1_j7t5hs9 wrote

Reply to comment by mrlolloran in IRS May Tax Massachusetts Refunds Sent In 2022 Under 62F Law by Lilslugga2002

There are 19 states with similar issues. How many tax attorneys do you think the IRS has available to draft such rulings? How much time do you think it takes for a single tax attorney to become familiar with a single state’s special provision, study it in the context of relevant federal law, draft a ruling, get it reviewed by some number of other tax attorneys, corrected, reviewed again, and then published? All while handling whatever other caseload they have?

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mrlolloran t1_j7t63bz wrote

They literally could have warned us about this when they announced the checks were going out. They waited until some people had actually filed to tell us to wait, without so much as offering to extend the deadline, a necessary things since now more people will be filing closer to the deadline.

They’ve gone about this all wrong from the very beginning so I’m not inclined to feel sympathetic for them as an organization.

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twowrist t1_j7t6sl0 wrote

Which they? The IRS didn’t send out the checks, so they didn’t announce it. Massachusetts did, and I think it’s been on their web site for some time now, but the only weight that has is to show that people who relied on it were acting in good faith.

The IRS doesn’t have a team of tax lawyers sitting around with nothing to do except read press releases from states. They might have a team that reads changes to state tax laws, but this wasn’t a change to Massachusetts tax law.

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mrlolloran t1_j7t7462 wrote

Are you now suggesting the IRS was unaware that 19 states issued refund checks and that they just recently found out? Nobody with two brain cells to rub together followed the news and thought “that’s a potential problem”

Again, they are just announcing this now, after enough time has passed for people to have actually filed. This is a farce

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twowrist t1_j7uu5om wrote

No, I’m suggesting that you don’t understand how decisions on what to work on are made in large business environments. This is true both for government agencies and large corporations. It’s why agility in business is something business schools study, and why many businesses die because they don’t react fast enough.

Look, the IRS has no obligation to pro-actively decide every conceivable case of state law interaction with federal law. It’s not enough that they be aware of all these special cases. Some one or group of people had to make a decision that these were more important to work on than all the other things they had already committed to work on before the states started doing this. Now I don’t know what their other priorities were at the time. So I can’t argue that they should have known this was or was not important enough to preempt other work. And neither can you. Large organizations, especially those that mostly work around a fixed calendar of work, can’t be expected to make every turn on a dime decision quickly and correctly.

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OkAd134 t1_j7v8ols wrote

> they are just announcing this now, after enough time has passed for people to have actually filed

Time for the quick-snap, no-huddle offense tax return filing

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