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Part 3. Submission Processing
Part 3. Submission Processing
Table of Contents
3.0 General
3.0.101 Schedule K-1 Processing
3.0.167 Losses and Shortages
3.0.230 Lockbox Processing Procedures
3.0.275 Business Results Measures for Submission Processing Functions
3.0.276 General, Scorecard Performance Measure Process - Security and Internal Control Review
3.5 Accounts Services
3.5.10 Remittance Transaction Research (RTR) System
3.5.20 Income Verification Express Service (IVES) - Processing Requests for Tax Return/Return Information
3.5.21 Return and Income Verification Services (RAIVS) - Processing Requests for Tax Return/Return Information
3.5.61 Files Management and Services
3.8 Deposit Activity
3.8.44 Campus Deposit Activity
3.8.45 Manual Deposit Process
3.8.46 Discovered Remittance
3.8.47 Manual Deposit for Field Office Payment Processing
3.10 Campus Mail and Work Control
3.10.5 Batch/Block Tracking System (BBTS)
3.10.8 Information Returns Processing
3.10.72 Receiving, Extracting, and Sorting
3.10.73 Batching and Numbering
3.11 Returns and Documents Analysis
3.11.3 Individual Income Tax Returns
3.11.6 Data Processing (DP) Tax Adjustments
3.11.10 Revenue Receipts
3.11.12 Exempt Organization Returns
3.11.13 Employment Tax Returns
3.11.14 Income Tax Returns for Estates and Trusts (Forms 1041, 1041-QFT, and 1041-N)
3.11.15 Return of Partnership Income
3.11.16 Corporate Income Tax Returns
3.11.20 Exempt Organization and Employee Plan Applications for Extension of Time to File
3.11.22 Employee Plan Excise Tax Return
3.11.23 Excise Tax Returns
3.11.25 Miscellaneous Tax Returns
3.11.26 Miscellaneous Tax Exempt Governmental Entities (TE/GE) Tax Returns
3.11.27 EPMF Return Processing Form 5500-EZ
3.11.29 Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) Enrollment Processing
3.11.106 Estate and Gift Tax Returns
3.11.154 Unemployment Tax Returns
3.11.180 Allocated Tips
3.11.212 Applications for Extension of Time to File
3.11.213 Form 1066, U.S. Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) Income Tax Return
3.11.217 Form 1120-S Corporation Income Tax Returns
3.11.249 Processing Form 8752
3.11.250 Form 8300 Processing
3.11.251 Spousal Payment Transcript Processing
3.12 Error Resolution
3.12.2 Individual Master File Error Resolution General Instructions
3.12.3 Individual Income Tax Returns
3.12.8 Information Returns Processing
3.12.10 Revenue Receipts
3.12.12 Exempt Organization Returns
3.12.13 Employment Tax Returns
3.12.14 Income Tax Returns for Estates and Trusts (Forms 1041, 1041-QFT, and 1041-N)
3.12.15 Return of Partnership Income
3.12.16 Corporate Income Tax Returns
3.12.21 Credit and Account Transfers
3.12.22 Employee Plan Excise Tax Returns
3.12.23 Excise Tax Returns
3.12.26 Tax Exempt Bond Error Resolution Procedures
3.12.32 General Unpostables
3.12.37 IMF General Instructions
3.12.38 BMF General Instructions
3.12.106 Estate Tax Returns - Paper Correction Processing
3.12.154 Unemployment Tax Returns
3.12.166 EPMF Unpostables
3.12.179 Individual Master File (IMF), Payer Master File (PMF) Unpostable Resolution
3.12.212 Applications for Extension of Time to File Tax Returns
3.12.213 Form 1066, U.S. REMIC Income Tax Return
3.12.217 Error Resolution Instructions for Form 1120-S
3.12.220 Error Resolution System for Excise Tax Returns
3.12.249 Processing Form 8752
3.12.251 Corporation Income Tax Returns
3.12.263 Estate and Gift Tax Returns
3.12.278 Exempt Organization Unpostable Resolution
3.12.279 BMF/CAWR/PMF Unpostable Resolution
3.13 Campus Document Services
3.13.2 BMF Account Numbers
3.13.5 Individual Master File (IMF) Account Numbers
3.13.6 Submission Processing Image Control Team (ICT) Correspondence Scanning
3.13.12 Exempt Organization Account Numbers
3.13.36 EPMF Account Numbers
3.13.40 Application for Tax Identification Number for Pending U.S. Adoptions
3.13.62 Media Transport and Control
3.13.122 Individual Master File (IMF) Entity Control Unpostables
3.13.222 BMF Entity Unpostable Correction Procedures
3.14 Notice Review
3.14.1 IMF Notice Review
3.14.2 Notice Review - Business Master File (BMF) Notice Review
3.17 Accounting and Data Control
3.17.5 Hardcore Payment Tracers
3.17.10 Dishonored Check File (DCF) and Unidentified Remittance File (URF)
3.17.15 Accounting Reports Analyst - Responsibilities
3.17.20 Refund Intercept Program
3.17.21 Credit and Account Transfers
3.17.30 SC Data Controls
3.17.41 Excise Reporting
3.17.46 Automated Non-Master File Accounting
3.17.50 Redesigned Revenue Accounting Control System (RRACS) Procedures
3.17.63 Redesigned Revenue Accounting Control System (RRACS)
3.17.64 Accounting Control General Ledger Policies and Procedures
3.17.79 Accounting Refund Transactions
3.17.80 Working and Monitoring Category D, Erroneous Refund Cases in Accounting Operations
3.17.220 Excess Collections File
3.17.221 Enterprise Computing Center Data Controls
3.17.243 Miscellaneous Accounting
3.17.244 Manual Assessments
3.17.277 Electronic Payments
3.17.278 Paper Check Conversion (PCC) and Remittance Strategy Paper Check Conversion (RSPCC) Systems
3.20 Exempt Organizations Returns Processing
3.20.12 Imaging and Perfecting Exempt Organization Returns for Public and Internal Viewing
3.20.13 Exempt Organizations Photocopy Procedures
3.21 International Returns and Documents Analysis
3.21.3 Individual Income Tax Returns
3.21.15 Withholding on Foreign Partners
3.21.19 Foreign Trust System
3.21.25 Miscellaneous Tax Returns
3.21.110 Processing Form 1042 Withholding Returns
3.21.111 Chapter Three and Chapter Four Withholding Returns
3.21.112 Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) Registration
3.21.261 Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA)
3.21.263 IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) Real-Time System (RTS)
3.21.264 IRS Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) Acceptance Agent Program
3.22 International Error Resolution
3.22.3 Individual Income Tax Returns
3.22.15 Foreign Partnership Withholding
3.22.19 Foreign Trust System
3.22.110 Processing Form 1042 Withholding Returns
3.22.111 Chapter Three and Chapter Four Withholding Database
3.22.261 Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA)
3.24 ISRP System
3.24.3 Individual Income Tax Returns
3.24.7 Delinquent Accounts
3.24.8 Information Returns Processing
3.24.10 Revenue Receipts
3.24.12 Exempt Organization Returns
3.24.13 Employment Tax Returns
3.24.14 Fiduciary Income Tax Returns
3.24.15 Partnership Return of Income
3.24.16 Corporation Income Tax Returns
3.24.20 Applications for Extension of Time to File Exempt Organizations and Employee Plans Returns
3.24.21 Credit and Account Transfers
3.24.22 Employee Plan Returns
3.24.23 Excise Tax Returns
3.24.25 BMF International Miscellaneous Tax Returns
3.24.26 Miscellaneous Tax Exempt and Government Entities (TE/GE) Returns
3.24.27 EPMF Return Processing Form 5500-EZ
3.24.28 Foreign Account Tax Compliance General Purpose Programs
3.24.29 SCRS Error Resolution
3.24.30 Data Controls
3.24.37 General Instructions
3.24.38 BMF General Instructions
3.24.40 Application for Taxpayer Identification Number for Pending U.S. Adoptions
3.24.50 Campus Performance Evaluation Reporting System
3.24.106 Estate Tax Returns
3.24.133 Residual Remittance Processing System
3.24.143 Gift Tax Returns
3.24.154 Unemployment Tax Returns
3.24.159 SCRS SC Edits
3.24.162 BOB Transcription Instructions
3.24.180 Allocated Tips
3.24.183 Planning and Control Data
3.24.202 Supervisory Operator's Manual
3.24.212 Applications for Extension of Time to File Tax Returns
3.24.213 Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit Income Tax Returns
3.24.226 Declaration for Electronic Filing
3.24.249 Fiscal Year Required Payments/Form 8752
3.28 Special Processing Procedures
3.28.2 Information Referral Process for Form 3949-A
3.28.3 Individual Income Tax Returns
3.28.4 Identity Theft Returns for Submission Processing
3.28.6 Processing Paper Form 8809, Application for Extension of Time to File Information Returns
3.30 Work Planning and Control
3.30.10 Cost Estimate Reference
3.30.18 Reports Teams Instructions for Work Planning and Control
3.30.19 Production Control and Performance Reporting
3.30.20 Organization, Function, and Program (OFP) Codes
3.30.30 Embedded Quality for Submission Processing (EQSP) System
3.30.50 Project PCA Production Control Accounting
3.30.123 Processing Timeliness: Cycles, Criteria and Critical Dates
3.30.124 Campus Monitoring Reports
3.30.126 Control Data Analysis
3.30.127 Workload Scheduling
3.37 International ISRP
3.37.110 Chapter 3 Withholding Returns
3.38 International Tax Returns and Documents
3.38.147 International Notices
3.40 Block Out of Balance Resolution
3.40.8 Information Returns Processing
3.40.37 General Instructions
3.41 OCR Scanning Operations
3.41.267 Affordable Care Act Information Return Processing on Service Center Recognition/Image Processing System
3.41.269 Information Returns Processing on SCRIPS
3.41.274 General Instructions for Processing via Service Center Recognition Image/Processing System
3.41.275 Scanner Operations on Service Center Recognition Image/Processing System
3.41.276 Form 941 and Schedule R Processing on Service Center Recognition/Image Processing System
3.41.277 Form 940 Processing on Service Center Recognition/Image Processing System
3.42 Electronic Tax Administration
3.42.4 IRS e-file for Business Tax Returns
3.42.5 IRS e-file of Individual Income Tax Returns
3.42.7 EPSS Help Desk Support
3.42.8 E-Services Procedures for Electronic Products and Services Support (EPSS)
3.42.9 IRS e-file of Information Returns
3.42.10 Authorized IRS e-file Providers
3.42.20 Preparer e-file Hardship Waiver Requests
3.43 Integrated Management System
3.43.405 Measured Employees Performance System (MEPS) for Managers
3.45 TE/GE Processing
3.45.1 Processing Employee Plan and Exempt Organization Determination Applications and User Fees
3.49 Statistics of Income Processing
3.49.5 Statistical Editing of Individual Income Tax Returns
3.49.8 Statistical Editing of Corporation Tax Returns