If research indicates the TC 899 Type 1 is unpostable, contact the TOP Liaisons for guidance. The purpose of the Agency/Sub Agency Code is for internal use only. . See IRM 3.17.794, Refund Schedule Number Format. Information indicates taxpayer resided solely in a community property state, Information on return, W-2s, or entity indicates taxpayer resided solely in a non-community property state. Lien or Levy payments cannot be applied to MFT 35. Year. Individual Income Tax Return. Form 8379 Allocation worksheets are located on SERP under Local/Sites/Other. A tax overpayment must offset to an outstanding Federal tax debt before it offsets against other debts or is applied to a credit elect. The account must be corrected without regard for the offset. When CC RFUND is input on a module with a (C) combat zone freeze, the indicator is set to "4" . Be sure to use the correct OTN for each adjustment. Allow three weeks for the posting of the reversal transactions when calculating the six-year period. (V) Outstanding Liability Freeze: Research to determine the liable spouse and issue a manual refund to the injured spouse for his/her portion of the refund that exceeds the amount for which he/she is liable. Form 8379 posted to the incorrect TIN, and the original Form 1040 is behind the Form 8379. The notice of offset informs the taxpayer that his/her Federal tax refund was offset for a debt owed to an agency(s). See IRM 21.4.6.5.16, Combat Zone Cases, for additional information. If separate returns were originally filed and now a joint return is filed reporting the recapture, the system should move the First-Time Home Buyer Credit entity from the secondary to the primary account and split the recapture based on the percentage. Update AMS History with the information obtained from the caller. If necessary, treat the offset as an erroneous refund. For late filed returns with pre-paid credits, you must figure the 2-year period from the date the tax is considered paid. If a TC 899 Type 1 is not posted research CC UPTIN. Advise the taxpayer to contact the agency on the notice if an offset occurs. A TC 766 input for more than the net amount results in an UPC 189. A request was previously submitted. Notice is sent as an attachment to paper refund. A Treasury Offset Program Bypass Indicator is assigned to all manual and systemic refunds certified to Bureau of the Fiscal Service by IRS. Notate, on the CIS case notes, the shortcut method used. Use the appropriate EITC table and worksheet, or CC EICMP with definer R for the tax year for which the form is being worked. Exemptions for the children must be entered in whole numbers only. Do not input a TOP offset reversal. BPI 9 is required input on all manual refunds resulting from an injured spouse allocation form filed by the primary taxpayer unless combat zone, BPI (6) applies. You will need to do a manual reversal request. Once an EIP payment offsets, it loses its identity as an EIP refund. Program Owner: Policy and Procedures BMF (PPB), Accounts Management (AM), Wage and Investment (WI). Use CC COMPA to compute the injured spouse's portion of the amount of credit interest based on the injured spouses reversal amount. See IRM 21.4.6.5.10.6, Issuing the Injured Spouse Refund. When a breakdown is not provided by the taxpayer, allocate estimated tax payments as follows: Divide the injured spouse's Married Filing Separate (MFS) tax by the sum of the MFS tax for both spouses and multiply that amount by joint estimated tax payments. Annotate AMS with the information obtained from the caller if you do not have access to CIS. When working an injured spouse case after offset of the original overpayment and the stimulus payment, you will input two adjustments. A refund offset to an outstanding IMF, BMF, or NMF tax debt is referred to as a tax offset. If AM accepts the resubmitted allocation it is unnecessary to forward the case to Appeals. Reverse a TOP offset to the Office of Child Support Enforcement that occurred after October 17, 2005 due to an automatic stay for bankruptcy. The manual refund is issued in the injured spouse's name only, unless the injured spouse requested in writing or on Form 8379, Injured Spouse Allocation, that it be issued in both names. 20) Taxpayer filed Form 8379 in any manner. in the case of oral statement, prepare e-4442/Form 4442, Inquiry Referral, history sheet or phone documentation sheet to use as the SD. See IRM 21.4.6.5.12.2, Manual Reversal of TOP Offset, for additional instructions. If calls are received or you have correspondence regarding an account with a TC 898 with an Agency ID of XX and an Agency Site ID DF or PF. If you intend to honor a hardship and a tax debt exists, See IRM 21.4.6.5.11.1, Offset Bypass Refund (OBR), before taking any action. 5) Taxpayer claims his/her refund was less than expected, amount disagrees with TC 846/840. If interest was included in the refund that was offset, further computation is needed when the injured spouse is not entitled to all the overpayment. The IRS issued three EIP payments: EIP 1 and EIP 2 (advance payments of the RRC for TY 2020), and EIP 3 (advance payment of the RRC for TY 2021). If you do qualify for a tax refund offset hardship exception, you may not ever be able to get one again. They file their 2021 tax return on April 15, 2022 showing a refund. Combat Zone (-C Freeze) account have a BPI 4 set when a computer-generated refund is issued. The non-debtor spouse may submit Form 8379, Injured Spouse Allocation, to request the return of his/her share of the joint overpayment. The injured spouses manual refund must include the appropriate BPI and be issued in either one name only or both names, depending upon how the Form 8379 was completed by the taxpayers. Reverse the amount of the entire TOP offset if available. Refer to IRM 21.5.2.4.23, Reprocessing Returns/Documents. Transfer the credit to a liability of the injured spouse and/or issue a manual refund to prevent the credit from offsetting back to the same debt. Form 1040, U.S. This change limits the time during which Treasury may require States to return the offset funds to six months from the date of such collection. Before reversing any offset to Office of Child Support Enforcement (Agency Codes 1 and/or 2), see IRM 21.4.6.4.2.4, Child Support TOP Offsets. (1) This transmits revised IRM 21.4.6, Refund Inquiries, Refund Offsets procedures. For all shortcut methods, if the Recovery Rebate Credit (RRC) is claimed and the injured spouse is entitled to half of the RRC. Use HC 3, RC 087, and PC 8 when applicable and use the appropriate post delay code. Please allow up to 180 days for the manual reversal to post. For prior revisions of Form 8379, always issue the Injured Spouse's portion of the refund in "one name only" even if the one name only box on line 11 is not checked. If the taxpayer does not provide the missing information within 40 days, see IRM 21.4.6.5.8.9, Form 8379, No Consideration Procedures, for instructions. A taxpayer claims additional PTC on Form 8962, line 26, if the taxpayer's allowable PTC exceeds the amount of advance PTC, payments paid on the taxpayers behalf. Indicate taxpayer's phone number and whether taxpayer can provide a copy of Form 8379. This example shows a TOP offset to the primary spouse's debt for $1000. However, if the taxpayer has other issues or requests information, you may work these other issues and contact the taxpayer if needed. BPI (4), (5), or (6) are valid, given the above conditions, even when the (C) combat zone freeze is not on the module. Per Document 12990, Records and Information Management Record Control Schedules, we are maintaining all paper and electronic records accordingly. Input a TC 971, AC 001 to cross-reference the correct tax period. The IRS tax refund schedule dates according to the IRS are 21 days for e-filed tax returns and 6 to 8 weeks for paper returns. If it is determined that the creditor agency did not obtain relief from the automatic stay, then the TOP offset may be reversed. 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. The Treasury Offset Program debt indicator (F) is set when Bureau of the Fiscal Service informs Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that at least one TOP debt exists and an offset may occur if a refund is authorized. DO NOT take any action or input a TC 766 (TOP offset reversal). See IRM 21.4.6.5.23, TOP Unpostable Conditions, for instructions. Before transferring any funds back to the individual tax account, be sure to research IDRS/AMS to make sure that the taxpayer did not call requesting the funds remain on the LLC account rather than transferring to the IMF account. See IRM 20.2.4.7.1.1(2), Systemic Refund Dates for IMF and BMF, for additional information. See IRM 21.4.6.5.10.5, Injured Spouse Refund - Tax Offset. See IRM 21.4.6.5.11.1(11) below for conditions that will allow an OBR. Follow IRM 25.15.5, Relief from Joint and Several Liability, Relief from Community Property Laws, or instructions on SERP under Local/Sites/Other, Accounts Management Services (AMS) Worksheets, Community Property Worksheets, Injured Spouse Allocation Worksheet Instructions for instructions pertaining to injured spouse cases filed when community property is involved. AM Process and Program Management produces a Utility 50 Run in October of each year to determine the volume and money amount of unresolved Form 8379, Injured Spouse Allocations. If the injured spouse allocation cannot be allowed, do not send another disallowance letter. TC 899 (TOP offset reversal record generated by Bureau of the Fiscal Service) See IRM 21.4.6.4.2.10, TC 899, Reversal or Agency Refund of TOP Offset, for the record type descriptions. 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. How to Request a Tax Refund Offset Reversal in 2022 When the I- freeze is unresolved, the Form 8379 cannot be processed. Contact the TOP Liaison at , if needed. Therefore, the TC 899, type 2 amount may only be for part of the TOP offset. In this situation, a manual refund is required to issue the refund to the injured spouse. For either situation (f) or (g) above, advise the taxpayer that the Form 8379 cannot be processed when there is a balance due or no overpayment exists on the account. Because all four requirements in paragraph (1) above are met move the $100.00 credit that results from the partial abatement back to the wife's 2012 account to prevent the credit from refunding from the 2011 MFJ account. See IRM 21.4.6.5.8.7, Incomplete Form 8379 Signed or Filed with Original Return for instructions and suspend the case for 40 days. You'll get an explanatory letter from the Bureau of the Fiscal Service if your refund is offset. All taxpayer refunds may be subject to offset. This doesn't imply when the refund would make it back to you, but infers to how long it takes to posts to your debt account. The repayment amount is reported on line 29 of Form 8962, Premium Tax Credit, and on: Taxpayers may allocate the excess advance premium tax credit repayment on Form 8379, any way they choose. Be sure to consider the credit resulting from the adjustment when computing the injured spouse's portion of the total overpayment. In Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. (2015), the United States Supreme Court held that (1) all states must allow same-sex couples to marry on the same terms and conditions as opposite-sex couples, and (2) states must recognize lawful same-sex marriages performed in other states. An account may have both a tax offset and a TOP offset. Individual Income Tax Return, was not timely per IRC 6511(a), or IRS determines there is no overpayment available for credit or refund per 6511(b), then the Form 8379, Injured Spouse Allocation, is not considered as there would be no joint credit or refund to offset and the allocation irrelevant. See the following example: BPI (0) indicates that any refund should offset for all TOP debts owed under the primary TIN, and secondary TIN if Filing Status 2 (FS2). The refund of tax year listed on Form 8379 for which community property laws may be applied if the tax year is: 1) Taxpayer's account has a -E freeze with a TC 971 AC 128 and a TC 810, refer to IRM 21.5.6.4.10 (3) -E Freeze, for a list of TC 810 conditions. There is now no remaining TOP offset and the taxpayers received the following refunds totaling $1,586.00. There is a partial lost refund when the TC 846 and the TC 898 are NOT the same. The status of a debt at Bureau of the Fiscal Service may change daily and the debt indicator on CC INOLE is updated weekly. See paragraph (4) below for emergency refunds or see IRM 21.4.6.5.11.1, Offset Bypass Refunds (OBR), before any action is taken. BPI (2) indicates that TOP should bypass offsets to debts owed by the secondary spouse and may offset to any debts owed by the primary spouse. Refer taxpayer to agency on notice. Refund or credit a tax account because the offset resulted from an over-collected or erroneously collected levy which creates an overpayment per IRC 6402, unless the IRS erroneously levied another taxpayer's account. See IRM 3.17.795, Refund Schedule Number Format, for additional information. You must take into consideration all TOP transaction codes with the same OTNs. Research and consider the following transactions on the module before inputting any adjustment for a TOP offset on a taxpayer's account: If a TC 899 Type 2 (agency refund) is on the account, see IRM 21.4.5.6.1, Account Actions for Category D Erroneous Refunds. Once a state recognizes a same-sex marriage, community property laws apply to property held by those spouses. Recover a refund issued because of a totally false return; (e.g., returns detected by the Questionable Refund Program, Criminal Investigation, Integrity & Verification Operation etc.). It is 10 characters in length separated by a hyphen in the middle. In general, a TC 899, type 1, 2, 3 or 4 will be pending or posted to the account. Input the offset reversal using CC REQ54, blocking series (BS) 00 with original return or BS 05 without original, source code (SC) 7, and the appropriate reason code. 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. Suggested response: Our records show the Excess Advance Premium Tax Credit Repayment (APTC) was not allocated on Form 8379. ID Theft, Merge cases, Scramble cases etc.). Prepaid or timely credit (e.g., estimated tax payment, withholding, or a payment before the due date (determined without regard to any extension of time for filing). Under these rights taxpayers have the right to receive prompt, courteous, and professional assistance in their dealings with the IRS, to be spoken to in a way they can easily understand, to receive clear and easily understandable communications from the IRS, and to speak to a supervisor about inadequate service. If the case is assigned to a CSR and you do not have access to CIS, issue 4442/e4442 to the CSR. Transfer any misapplied payments to the correct period. For instance. You may see a TC 971 AC 599 on the account representing a manual input of the TC 899 erroneously deleted. 807 intends that income, deductions, personal exemptions, credits, and payments shown on the joint return be allocated to the spouse to whom they belong. After January 15, 2021, EIP 2 could no longer be issued and had to be claimed on a 2020 return as RRC. When processing an injured spouse form against a Treasury Offset Program offset, all EITC must be allocated on Form 8379 Injured Spouse Allocation Worksheet prior to applying each state's applicable laws to the remaining overpayment. 6) Taxpayer says Form 8379 was filed with his/her original return and no refund was received. Send Letter 3179C, Refund Offset to Treasury Offset Program (TOP) and Injured Spouse Inquiries or Letter 285C, Refund/Overpayment Applied to Account, to the taxpayer informing them that we allocated it for them. An adjustment resulting in a net credit to the tax module must be input after the offset reversal. A non-community property state is entered on line 5. Of the 9 community property states, only Louisiana and Texas did not recognize same-sex marriages before Obergefell was decided. If the taxpayer responds after the time frame provided in the letter (30 days), we will honor their request if the funds have not yet been applied back to the IMF accounts. See IRM 21.4.6.5.23.2, UPC 137 or UPC 437. If a TC 899 is not reflected on the account, contact Bureau of the Fiscal Service to verify the transactions that transpired before any adjustment is made. If a Form 8379, Injured Spouse Allocation, is attached, input a TC 971, AC 071. Any remaining overpayment will release to any outstanding debt. When the TC 700 posts to the account, follow normal Injured Spouse processing procedures. If all the offset is needed, reverse the entire amount. Close you case using Document Type-Internal Transcript, IDRS Cat Code IRRQ, Program Code 40000. The following example illustrates a returned refund, TC 841, that posted for an amount less than the original refund that was offset. 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