AICPA Recommendations on Self-Identification for Taxpayers Affected by Disasters

The AICPA's comment letter requests that the IRS consider including a checkbox and space for a FEMA declaration number to allow taxpayers affected by federally declared disasters to self-identify as eligible for disaster relief. A checkbox and FEMA declaration number space would supplement the current process of self-identifying via IRS’s telephone services and would serve as a backup to the IRS’s current automated process of identifying taxpayers eligible for disaster relief.