Under IRC 6161, individual taxpayers
and business taxpayers are allowed to request an extension of time
for payment of tax shown or required to be shown on a return or for
a tax due on a notice of deficiency. In order to be granted this
extension, they must file Form 1127, providing evidence of undue
hardship, inability to borrow, and collateral to ensure payment of
the tax. Under IRC 6161 and the Service's Fresh Start initiative,
individual taxpayers are allowed to request an extension of time
for payment of tax shown or required to be shown on a return for
2011. In order to be granted this extension, they must file Form
1127-A, self-certifying hardship due to the current economic
downturn.
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USC 6161 Name of Law: Extension of time for paying tax
Program Change Due to Agency
Discretion: 1) Per the Program Manager, lines were deleted from
Form 1127. This resulted in a 490 decrease to total burden hours.
2) Under IRC 6161 and the Service's Fresh Start initiative,
individual taxpayers are allowed to request an extension of time
for payment of tax shown or required to be shown on a return for
2011 only using separate Form 1127-A. The audience for Form 1127-A
is very limited. This is different from Form 1127 which allows for
extensions to pay not only income taxes but also, withheld taxes on
nonresident aliens and foreign corporations, taxes on private
foundations and certain other tax-exempt organizations, taxes on
qualified investment entities, taxes on greenmail, taxes on
structured settlement factoring transactions, and gift taxes. The
IRS expects the same amount of filers who filed Form 1127 in 2010
to file in 2011; but expects a distinct new group of filers to file
the 1127-A, which will increase the number of respondents by 1,000.
The burden per response on the Form 1127-A is estimated at 1.21
hours; whereas it takes a taxpayer 7.47 hours to complete Form
1127. Form 1127-A will increase the burden by 1,210 hours for a
total burden of 8,680 hours.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.