

are the exclusive means to establish prima facie evidence of delivery of a document to the agency" (id.). Namely, "proof of proper use of registered or certified mail, and proof of proper use of a duly designated PDS. Therefore, in 2011, Treasury amended its regulations and set forth "the only ways to establish prima facie evidence of delivery of documents that have a filing deadline prescribed by the internal revenue laws, absent direct proof of actual delivery" (T.D. For instance, could timely mailing be proved through personal testimony or witnesses? The conflicting judicial decisions "left the law in an undesirable state, as it allowed similarly situated taxpayers to be treated differently depending on where they lived" ( Baldwin,921 F.3d 836, 841 (9th Cir. 7502 eliminated the possibility that a taxpayer could rely on other types of evidence that a document had been mailed in a timely manner, when the IRS had no record of receiving the document and the taxpayer had not used registered or certified mail. However, afterward, the courts were split as to whether the enactment of Sec.

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mail is deemed to have been delivered to the IRS, even if the IRS has no record of receiving it, and the date of registration or certification is deemed the postmark date (Sec. A document sent by registered or certified U.S.7502(a)(1)), as long as the document was actually mailed before the deadline. postmark date is deemed the date of delivery, even if the IRS receives the document after the applicable deadline (Sec. If the IRS in fact receives the document, a U.S.7502(a) and its subsequent amendments and regulations created exceptions to the physical- delivery rule, specifically: 7502 was enacted in response to disputes about whether a document had indeed been physically delivered to the IRS, intending to eliminate taxpayers' arguments that a document had been appropriately mailed to the IRS with sufficient time for the document to reach the IRS - even if the IRS had no record of receiving it. 7502's enactment in 1954, whether a document was considered timely filed depended upon the " physical- delivery rule." That is, documents were timely filed only if the document was delivered to the IRS by the due date, because the common law understanding of "filed" meant delivering something to where it needed to get to, not just "sending it off." 7502 currently codifies what some still refer to as the "mailbox rule." Before Sec. Is it timely filed? The answer is yes, but there are intricacies and confusion involved here. But consider this query: A taxpayer is stuck in Canada due to the pandemic and mails via the Canadian postal service his 2019 tax return on April 15, 2020. A variety of tax consequences may depend on whether a return or other document is timely filed with the IRS.
