by Eric J. Ellman | May 30, 2026
In May 2026, the IRS announced that Effective October 1, 2026, there will be updates to the user fees for the Income Verification Express Service (IVES) program.User fees for transcript requests received in the legacy fax channel for Pega Enterprise File Storage (EFS)...
by Eric J. Ellman | Jan 5, 2025
On January 8, 2025, the IRS issued, via a bulletin, an invitation to apply to serve on the IRS IVES Working Group. That bulletin included a link to the IVES Participant Working Group Charter (2025), dated Nov. 27 2024.
by Eric J. Ellman | Apr 10, 2024
On April 10, 2024, the IRS announced that the User fees for transcript requests received in the legacy fax channel for Enterprise File Storage (EFS) will be increasing from the current $2.00 user fee to $4.00 per transcript requested. Any transcript received October...
by Eric J. Ellman | Nov 4, 2019
In 2019, Congress passed the Taxpayer First Act (TFA), Pub. L. 116-25. The Act contains two provisions to reform IVES. Section 2201 of the TFA adds to 26 USC Sec. 6103, note. Section 2202 of the Act adds to 26 U.S.C. Sec. 6103 and the note. Resources: Joint Committee...
by Eric J. Ellman | Jul 5, 2019
In July 2019, Cecil Bowman, National Credit-reporting System, Inc., on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service Income Verification Express Service Working Group, was joined by a trade group to file a 2019 07 26 IRS IVES Working Group Annual Report.
