Coming Soon: New Ways to Pay the IRS

Person using credit card to pay bill onlineImprovements will be made over four years.

By CPA Trendlines Research

Americans are used to paying for things online, over the phone, through bank transfers, with automatic renewals, with credit cards, digital wallets and checks in the mail, not to mention a variety of specialized banks, such as PayPal and Venmo, and even good ol’-fashioned cash.

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To the frustration of millions of American taxpayers, the Internal Revenue Service, until recently, has accepted payments only with 19th-century technology.