Unfiled taxes

If you don’t file a required tax return by the deadline, it’s called a back tax return, an unfiled return, or past-due return. You can face consequences with the IRS if you have back tax returns.

How to resolve back tax returns

The IRS may contact you to ask you to file, or may take more serious actions, such as filing a return for you or opening a criminal investigation. To get back into filing compliance, you should follow IRS procedures and use several best practices to resolve your late-filing issue.
What you need to know about back tax returns

Ignoring a notice from the IRS could prove detrimental to your current and future financial life. This may be your first instinct, hoping that maybe the IRS will just go away. NOT. The situation is not going to disappear, and you have a finite amount of time to respond before the audit notice turns into a bill.

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