IRS services down over Memorial Day

By Jeff Stimpson

Published May 24, 2017, 8:26 a.m. EDT

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The IRS will conduct its annual Memorial Day systems maintenance beginning Friday, May 26, at 6 p.m. EDT and ending on Tuesday, May 30, at 5 a.m. EDT.

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The E-Services Transcript Delivery System, TIN Matching, e-file and Affordable Care Act applications will not be available during this time.

The Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. — A man enters the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, May 7, 2010. Americans seeking reward money are turning in neighbors, clients and employers they suspect of cheating on taxes to the IRS at a rate of nearly eight per day, the director of the agency's whistleblower program said. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

E-Services also will be unavailable from Thursday, June 15, at 6 p.m. through Monday, June 19, at 6 a.m. as it moves to a different platform as part of a technology upgrade. (See “IRS targets summer for rollout for e-Services upgrade.”) All e-Services applications – including e-file and ACA applications, Transcript Delivery System and TIN Matching – will be offline during this time.

Applications will be available starting Monday, June 19.

Freelance writer

Jeff Stimpson is a veteran freelance journalist who previously served as editor of The Practical Accountant.

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