The IRS "Notice" Nightmare continues... July 16, 2020 John A. Cocklereece, Jr. Tax Controversy Law In an early June post, I mentioned that the pandemic had shut down the IRS, but that they were beginning the process of slowly re-opening. One consequence of the shutdown was that payment and other notices that would have gone out did not go out. As the IRS ramps back up, these "backlogged" notices should have started to go out as early as July 15. One estimate states that there may be as many as 20 million backlogged notices going out.