Review procedures in IRM 10.5.1.6.7.2 , Answering Machine or Voice Mail, before leaving a message on a taxpayer's or authorized representative's answering machine or voice mail. Return processable date (RPD) (date return was received in processable form). If the account requires the reversal of four or more TC 898s, and the refund will be issued in both names input all the required TOP offset reversals (TC 766) using HC 3 with the appropriate blocking series, SC 7, RC 086 and PC 8. The Unpostables unit attempts to correct each of the above conditions. To determine the appropriate campus, use the 8th and 9th position of the RSN. The QBID will be allocated as a percentage of each spouse's Qualified Business Income if the Qualified Business Income (QBI) can be determined. Program Controls: Goals, measures and operating guidelines are listed in the yearly Program Letter. When issuing a manual refund, use the applicable BPI to assign ownership of the refund to the injured spouse. In all instances above check both spouses SSN to ensure the EIP credit did not post to the secondary SSN. If Insolvency does not provide a specific name and number for the injured spouse to contact, include the Philadelphia CIO telephone number 800-973-0424 in the Letter 3179C. Process Form 8379 based upon community property laws of that state. Always capture and/or attach INOLES or IAT Results IS screens for both spouses showing the debt indicator (I), (F), (B) or (N) at the time the Injured Spouse Allocation is being worked. Hold until the -Q freeze is released with TC 572 by EXAM or IVO. Through the TOP program, BFS may reduce your refund (overpayment) and offset it to pay: Past-due child support; Federal agency non-tax debts; State income tax obligations; or The BPI is a one-digit indicator that identifies for BFS whether the refund is eligible for offset by TOP. 12345-67890. See IRM 21.4.6.5.12.1, Input of TOP Offset Reversals TC 766 with OTN. The TC 766 cannot be within $10.00 of any TC 766 amount listed on the account without using a Priority Code (PC) 8. See IRM 3.17.794, Refund Schedule Number Format. A UPC 134, RC 03, is an IMF unpostable that occurs when an account containing a full or partially unreversed TC 898 (net offset amount greater than zero) attempts to merge with another account, and the 23C date of the TC 898 is within six years of the current date. You must take into consideration all TOP transaction codes with the same OTNs. A TC 766 reject occurs when IRS requests a specific TOP offset reversal and the Federal agency has already refunded the offset or Bureau of the Fiscal Service has initiated a reversal of the offset because it was undeliverable or a debt was canceled. The injured spouse has no payments or refundable credits. Research CC IMFOLF to determine if both spouses on the joint return are liable for the repayment of the recapture tax. Taxpayers can call the IRS and request reversal of the adjustment, but as we all know, reaching the IRS by phone is beyond challenging (for filing season 2022 as of the week ending April 9, 2022, the level of service for the phone lines that serve math error notice recipients is just under ten percent). Research CC IMFOLE for the Combat indicator on Line 11. When the TC 150 posts, a CP 36D notice generates to the AM Function, The BS sets a TC 570 -R freeze to hold the credit until the Form 8379 is worked, and. 8) Taxpayer says Form 8379 was filed with his/her original return and no refund was received. This occurs when an input TC 766 reverses a TC 898 with no debtor TIN. AALs can also be viewed by accessing Control Data Analysis, and Project PCD, which are on the Control-D/Web Access server. However, if the taxpayer has other issues or requests information, you may work these other issues and contact the taxpayer if needed. Use HC 4 for TOP offset reversals that will result in a credit balance on the tax module. If the case does not meet TAS criteria and the taxpayer has a hardship, transfer the caller to App 35 using ACD = 92035 or IUP = 1035. This has no effect on injured spouse forms filed against tax offsets since IRS creditor rights permit an offset based on the applicable state law regardless of how EITC may be allocated. Bypass TOP offset for secondary TIN's debts and may offset to the Office of Child Support Enforcement for primary TIN when an automatic stay is in effect or when the creditor agency has obtained relief from the automatic stay. For example, California stopped taking refunds until July 2021. Refer to IRM 21.6.2, Adjusting TIN-Related Problems. The received date of the Form 8379 is used for the transaction date of the TC971 AC071. A TC 899 Type 3 is also used to correct an account due to a BFS or IRS processing error. Since the systemic offset took place before the offer acceptance, there was no overpayment available for refund when the offer was accepted. $586.00 dated 03/06/2012 (TC 846 $1,586.00 TC 898 $1,000.00), $550.00 to the injured spouse dated 04/19/2012, $450.00 from the agency that received the offset. See IRM 21.4.6.4.2.4, Child Support TOP Offsets. Treasury Offset Program offset (effective 01/11/1999). Washington, DC 20227. How much money has TOP recovered? The agency refunded the remainder of the TOP offset originating from the TC 846 dated 03/06/2012 to the taxpayer. If the date of the refund check is not on or before that date, interest must be allowed on the refund. Joint filers whose principal home was in a community property state at any time during the tax year may not have to meet the requirement in paragraph (4) above. See IRM 21.4.6.5.12.2, Manual Reversal of TOP Offset. For taxpayer inquiries regarding Refund Discrepancies: Advise the taxpayer to allow five calendar days for direct deposit and 4 weeks for paper check to arrive. When the resolution of the IDRS freeze condition results in an overpayment, the overpayment can be issued in a manual refund after the 23C date, so long as: The function receives the OBR request before the posting date of the freeze release, The approving official approves the OBR before the posting date of the freeze release, and. 11-2016 (MeF) and Rev. If a Letter 105C, Claim Disallowed was previously sent because the return was not timely filed, advise the taxpayer that we cannot consider Form 8379, Injured Spouse Allocation. See IRM 21.5.1.5.3 CIS Source Documentation, for Blocking series (BS) and NSD adjustment examples. If the exemption portion is incomplete and the credits are not allocated, split the unallocated credits in half (50/50) and send Letter 3179C, Refund Offset to Treasury Offset Program (TOP) Nontax Obligation or Letter 285C, Refund/Overpayment Applied to Account. 1. The debt may be activated, inactivated or deleted within TOP before a refund is issued. Resolve Combat Zone cases, see IRM 21.4.6.5.16, Combat Zone Cases. Advise the taxpayer it may be necessary to re-file Form 8379, Injured Spouse Allocation, if more than 45 days have passed. If you are unable to resolve the math error, work the allocation based on the information you have. Allocate any other credits as the taxpayer has entered on Form 8379. If the taxpayer replies with the missing information, update the Return Processable Date (RPD), per IRM 21.5.6.4.17(2), I- Freeze, to the date the information is received. See IRM 21.4.6.5.7, Reasons to Reverse TOP Offset. See IRM 21.4.6.5.8.10, Time Period for Submitting Form 8379. BPI (5) indicates that TOP should bypass all debts for the primary TIN and all debts except child support for the secondary spouse. If the DEBTOR-TIN was present and filed with the secondary spouse's TIN, the offset would have been to the secondary spouse's debt. Use the IDRS On-Line input Chart found in Document 6209, Section 16, Julian Date, Cycle and Notice Calendars to determine the 23C date of the releasing adjustment. The BPI also shows with the pending transaction. When the wrong spouse is identified as the injured spouse on Form 8379, Injured Spouse Allocation, and the form is filed with an original signed Form 1040, Form 1040X, or a duplicate filed return, process the form without contacting the taxpayer if either the following apply: You can determine, without doubt, who the injured spouse is. TOP can answer some questions, but they can't make arrangements for you to pay your debt or even tell you how much you owe. As of March 18, 2021, the 2020 RRC amount will no longer be applied to past due federal income tax debts. Some freezes and the actions required to process the injured spouse allocation are: Invalid TIN entity freeze: Resolve problem with the TIN before processing the Form 8379. Levy proceeds which do not create an overpayment and are within two years of making the levy, must meet the criteria in IRC 6343(d). If there is no Form 8379 on file, the injured spouse must file Form 8379, to request their share of the EIP which offset. Do not use the DMF-LIAB-IND> found on CC TXMOD or CC IMFOL for processing an injured spouse allocation, nor for advising the taxpayer of the existence/non-existence of a TOP debt at Bureau of the Fiscal Service. A tax overpayment must offset to an outstanding Federal tax debt before it offsets against other debts or is applied to a credit elect. See IRM 21.6.7.4.1, Source and Reason Codes CP 21/CP 22A Notices, for conditions when a notice will/will not generate. Tax offsets appear on a tax module as: Transaction Code (TC) 820, manual credit transfer, TC 896, computer-generated tax offset from IMF to BMF, Individual Retirement Account File (IRAF) or Shared Responsibility Payment (MFT 35) without an Agency/Sub-Agency (AG/SA) Code. Advise the taxpayer of the reason for the offset. If there is no PENDMRR or MRRTONHQ in the IDRS case control activity, then the TC 899 Type 3 is a BFS/IRS correction. If the freeze release occurs without a releasing transaction (e.g., due to the passage of time from the imposition of the freeze), treat the posting date of offset credit transfers as the posting date of the freeze release. See IRM 5.19.10.6.3, Combat Zone Freeze Code, for additional information. If the account requires the reversal of three or more TC 898s, you must issue a manual refund. If the taxpayer reported excess APTC on their original return but did not allocate the excess APTC on Form 8379, allocate one-half the APTC for each spouse (50/50). A manual reversal is required. This credit is reported on Schedule M of the Form 1040/Form 1040A, U.S. If you receive a Form 8379 for both the regular refund on 2018 or 2019 and EIP 1 and/or EIP 2, work the non-EIP portion on the 2018 or 2019 account and work the EIP portion on the 2020 account. After all adjustments have posted, attempt to merge the accounts again. If the taxpayers filing status is other than Married Filing Joint (MFJ) and filed a zero or $1 return and there is no credit on the account, close your case using Document Type-Internal Transcript, IDRS Cat Code IRRQ, Program Code 40000. Follow the procedures below to reverse a tax offset when a clear determination is made that a portion of the injured spouse's refund has been applied to a tax liability for which he/she is not responsible. Offsets that occur during processing year 2016 and beyond will post with the Agency and Sub-Agency Code at the beginning of the Offset Trace Number (OTN). BPI (3) generates on all systemic and manual refunds issued from a business NMF account to prevent a TOP offset. Advise the taxpayer to allow 17 weeks processing time, unless there is an open control base; if there is an open control base advise them to allow 8 weeks from the control date. All TOP reversals must be input to the TIN from which the offset occurred, so that the correct debtors account can be updated with the agency. For the X-REF, input the TIN of the person whose name is on the refund. Refer taxpayer to agency on the due process offset notice, or if unknown, to TOP Call Center above (agency must determine who owes debt and issue any subsequent refund). The TC 766 amount may not exceed the net TOP offset amount. The programming issue was fixed. 11-2016) "Issue in both names" box on line 11 is checked. See IRM 21.4.6.4.2.9 TC 766 with OTN TOP Offset Reversal. Issue a manual refund, Notate your manual refund with "Injured Spouse System Fix". If the taxpayer claimed the TETR refund on their original return but did not allocate the credit on Form 8379 allocate the TETR refund 50/50, one-half for each spouse, split any interest 50/50. Determine if the injured spouse's share of the 2007 ESP was reversed in Cycle 200852 or the 2007 ESP was not received (return not filed or not eligible for some or all the ESP). The late return received date, the date of the overpayment (as determined in the preceding table), or the return processable date. The term husband and wife mean two individuals lawfully married to each other. If an OBR is requested before the 23C date of the tax assessment which created the overpayment; but a clerical error occurred preventing the processing of the request, the IRS can correct the clerical error by reversing the tax offset and issuing the OBR. TC 899, type 1, with negative money amount, is used by Bureau of the Fiscal Service to report a TOP offset reversal. Individuals and business entities that expected a refund and have other government debts may be impacted. OBR requests should generally not be referred to the Taxpayer Advocate Service. Update IDRS with the activity code "TC840/OBR.". All Forms 1040 series indicating "Injured Spouse" in the upper left corner are blocked in BS 920929. Use CC INOLE for cross- reference Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) OBL checks. A tax refund offset payment is applied according to the source of the refund (federal or state) and the creditor for the past-due amountthe Department of Social Services ( DSS) or the custodial parent. If there is no tax and the taxpayer did not allocate the payments, the form is incomplete. If the freeze ends on May 1, 2022, the IRS will be able to apply tax refunds to student loans, child support, and other delinquent debts owed to state and federal agencies. See IRM 21.3.5.4.1, When to Prepare a Referral, for instructions. Take no further action until the manual reversal request has completed. Your exact refund amount. If part of the RRC payment was offset and part was refunded to the taxpayers, deduct the refunded amount from the credit amount to determine if the injured spouse is entitled to any additional refund. (1) IRM 21.4.6.2(1) Reworded IRC 6402 information, (2) IRM 21.4.6.3 Disclosure restructured section and updated IRM references, (3) IRM 21.4.6.5.1(1) IPU 22U0145 issued 01-21-2022 Added instructions to input a History Item, (4) IRM 21.4.6.5.2(2) IPU 22U0736 issued 06-17-2022 Box 8 & 9 Refer case to local Directorates AM Paper Function, (5) IRM 21.4.6.5.2(7) IPU 22U0736 issued 06-17-2022 Added prior year returns processed during COVID, (6) IRM 21.4.6.5.2(21) IPU 22U0215 issued 02-03-2022 New Taxpayer calls regarding letter 3179C, (7) IRM 21.4.6.5.8.2 (1) Added Form 1040 SR, (8) IRM 21.4.6.5.8.2(3) d) IPU 22U0406 issued 03-18-2022 MeF Form 8379 and IPU 22U0736 issued 06-17-2022 Note revised instructions for Form 8379 programming issue, (9) IRM 21.4.6.5.8.3(17) d) IPU 22U0215 issued 02-03-2022 Added procedure to input a TC 290 .00 with a Hold Code 4, (10) IRM 21.4.6.5.8.3(17) f) IPU 22U0145 issued 01-21-2022 Updated Note to input a TC 290 .00 with HC 4, (11) IRM 21.4.6.5.8.3(17) j) IPU 22U0145 issued 01-21-2022 Reworded to look for both an OIC indicator and TC 780 individually, (12) IRM 21.4.6.5.8.7(2) IPU 22U0145 issued 01-21-2022 Added to have the taxpayer send Form 8379 via fax or mail, (13) IRM 21.4.6.5.8.9(2) a) Updated to see IRC 6511 for exceptions regarding timeframes for submitting Form 8379, (14) IRM 21.4.6.5.8.10(4) Updated to see IRC 6511 for exceptions regarding timeframes for submitting Form 8379, (15) IRM 21.4.6.5.8.10.2 (3) Reworded to include IRC 6511 and added a Caution regarding IRC 6511, (16) IRM 21.4.6.5.10(1) IPU 22U0736 issued 06-17-2022 Caution removed the requirement to enter zero, (17) IRM 21.4.6.5.10.1 (2), (3) and (4) Changed to a step list and removed the table, (18) IRM 21.4.6.5.10.2(9) New American Rescue Plan Act of 2020, (19) IRM 21.4.6.5.10.4(4) b) IPU 22U0145 issued 01-21-2022 Added to input the TC 770 for zero on the last adjustment, (20) IRM 21.4.6.5.11.1(6) Updated OBR information to include OIC information, (21) IRM 21.4.6.5.31.1(3) IPU 22U0145 issued 01-21-2022 Added Note for The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), (22) IRM 21.4.6.5.33 (1), Added information for Coronavirus Aid, (6) expanded procedures (7) added a reminder, (23) IRM 21.4.6.5.33.3 (3) IPU 22U0736 issued 06-17-2022 Reworded for clarity regarding RRC split between each spouse, (24) IRM 21.4.6.5.33.3(4) IPU 22U0215 issued 02-03-2022 New manual refund requirement and IPU 22U0229 issued 02-04-2022 Reworded manual refund requirement and IRM 21.4.6.5.33.3(4) IPU 22U0736 issued 06-17-2022 Updated refund procedures, (25) IRM 21.4.6 Editorial changes made throughout this revision, Karen Michaels Government debts may be impacted any other credits as the taxpayer if needed the OTNs! 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