In an email sent to us Thursday:
My name is Walkidia Gomez and I am a Relationship Manager for Stakeholder Partnerships, Education and Communication (SPEC). SPEC is the outreach and education function of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). We are contacting organization to assist us in getting the word out on unemployment
As of April 2020, over 23 million Americans filed for unemployment, and one out of four Americans received unemployment this year. We need your help to reach these individuals and make sure they know that unemployment is taxable income. We do not want them to be caught off guard when filing their tax return next year!
It is our goal that, with your help, more people will know that:
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- unemployment income is taxable
- they can contact their state unemployment office to have taxes withheld from ongoing unemployment payments
- if they did not have taxes withheld from unemployment payments, there are ways to pay on those taxes before the year ends
- they can use the withholding calculator https://apps.irs.gov/app/tax-withholding-estimator, and determine what they may owe
We have included a flyer for you to share with your clients, employees and fellow outreach partners. We hope that you will:
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- email the flyer to all of your e-mail contacts
- print and post the flyer in any high traffic areas you may have
- post the flyer to your website and
- share it to your social media outlets
If you would, please let us know the potential reach of the efforts you make, it will help us measure the success of this campaign.
Please consider following the IRS Social Media accounts to receive and share the latest information that the IRS posts.
If you cant assist us in getting this information out to your employees please give me a call.
Lastly, Thank You, and please let me know how I can support you in this effort.
Sincerely,
Walkidia Gomez
Internal Revene Service
Relationship Manager/Tax Consultant
Oklahoma City Territory | (405) 471-9245 cell
Unemployment Flyer Publication Number 5444-2020-08 27 in PDF