Just in time for tax season, the IRS has launched the Simple Notice Initiative to simplify common tax documents by redesigning the format and simplifying the language.

The plan is to make the IRS tax forms less complicated and confusing by removing much of the legal jargon. The shorter, clearer language is expected to help taxpayers better understand what is being asked of them in the 170 million letters sent to taxpayers every year. 

The new and improved letters should be ready for the 2024 tax season, with the stated goal of the IRS being to revise 90% of the letters sent out.

Funding for the new initiative was made available through the Inflation Reduction Act, passed in August 2022, which allocated $80 billion to the IRS to utilize to modernize the organization over a ten-year span.