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Date Issued
Submitting OIG
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
Agencies Reviewed/Investigated
Internal Revenue Service
Report Number
2025-408-016
Report Type
Audit
Agency Wide
Yes
Number of Recommendations
12
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0
Report updated under NDAA 5274
No

Open Recommendations

This report has 11 open recommendations.
Recommendation Number Significant Recommendation Recommended Questioned Costs Recommended Funds for Better Use Additional Details
1 No $0 $0

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should develop a code that can be placed on tax accounts during tax return
************2*************************** processing to identify when a on the current year Form 5695.

2 No $0 $0

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should identify and update computer programming which prevented tax returns incorrectly claiming the Residential Clean Energy Credit from being identified by the Error Resolution program.

3 No $0 $0

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should evaluate and update computer programming to disallow the credit for qualified fuel cell property when taxpayers do not meet the minimum kilowatt usage requirement.

5 No $0 $0

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should review the 1,537 tax returns we identified that did not meet the kilowatt requirement or had a miscalculated credit and take action to recover the potential erroneously issued credit amounts.

6 No $0 $0

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should take steps to periodically identify and recover erroneously issued credits until computer programming can be implemented to correct the identified issues.

7 No $0 $0

The Chief Tax Compliance Officer, should incorporate the use of the code developed in response to Recommendation 1 when selecting tax returns for post-processing compliance to verify the **********2*****************

8 No $0 $0

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should develop processes to enforce and systemically verify that e-filed tax
******2******** returns claiming the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit have
***********2*********************** used to claim the credit.

9 No $0 $0

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should revise Form 8911 to capture the number of properties claimed for the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit.

10 No $0 $0

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should develop computer programming to limit the personal use part of the credit
***********2***********

11 No $0 $0

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should develop computer programming to systemically ensure that e-filed returns claiming a qualified disaster distribution that is exempt from the early distribution tax do not exceed the $22,000 statutory limitation.

12 No $0 $0

The Chief, Taxpayer Services, should review the 39 tax returns that we identified exceeding the statutory limit for the early distribution tax and take appropriate action to correct them.

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration

United States