The IRS provides enrolled agents and businesses with the latest resources and updates on a variety of tax issues facing the coronavirus pandemic. This page will be regularly updated as soon as new information becomes available.

Economic Impact Payment Outreach Resources

Help us to spread the word about economic impact payments.

On April 4, NAEA received a letter from IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig asking that we help the IRS spread the word about the coordination of economic impact statements. We need your help to reach many lower-income, non-filers, military, veterans, ethnic, and homeless communities who are not in the IRS system and who may not step up to provide information that would enable the IRS to generate payments on their behalf. Please think creatively to spread the word to your local network, starting with your clients, a board on which you sit, a volunteer program, or your church/place of worship.

IRS Offers Additional Resources

The IRS has provided additional economic impact tools to help spread the word about COVID-19 relief. The Get My Payment graphic displays the economic impact date and helps with direct deposit. The Non-Filer poster highlights a new tool aimed to help non-filers register for economic impact payments. Please share across your social media channels using the hashtag
#COVIDreliefIRS and link to www.irs.gov/getmypayment.

Email Updates from IRS

June 1, 2020

The IRS continues to create outreach materials to address people’s questions about coronavirus-related tax relief and Economic Impact Payments. This week’s outreach bundle includes information on how Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) being sent via prepaid debit cards will arrive in plain envelopes, multilingual resources on IRS.gov and two new Spanish language products: the Get My Payment video and the Economic Impact Payments for the homeless e-Poster.

Please share and adapt these materials for your communications, including emails, newsletters, websites and other channels. We need your help in sharing these important outreach materials with your members and affiliates, clients, family and friends.

For more information, visit IRS.gov/coronavirus.

Products/Resources


News release:

Tax tips: 

Ready-to-use articles:

e-Poster:

YouTube video:

Social media images: 

  • Economic Impact Payments via debit card arriving in plain envelope – Image 1 | Image 2
  • Safe harbor for taxpayers that develop renewable energy projects – Image 1
  • File Form 1040-X electronically this summer – Image 1 | Image 2

May 18, 2020

The IRS continues to create outreach materials to address people’s questions about coronavirus-related tax relief and Economic Impact Payments. In particular, IRS has worked to expand materials for partner groups including an updated Economic Impact Payments and Coronavirus Tax Relief Partner Toolkit, now available in Spanish, and a variety of other print and visual items.

This week’s outreach bundle includes links to our updated Partner Toolkit, as well as materials on Economic Impact Payments, the Get My Payment tool and employer credits. IRS has also partnered with the Federal Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau to get the word out about scams related to Economic Impact Payments through informative videos available in this bundle in both English and Spanish.

Please share and adapt these materials for your communications, including emails, newsletters, websites and other channels. We need your help in sharing these important outreach materials with your members, clients and affiliates as well as families and friends.

For additional information, visit IRS.gov/coronavirus.

Products/Resources

News release:

Tax Tips: 

  • Here are answers to a few common questions about Economic Impact Payments
  • Here’s why some people’s Economic Impact Payment is different than expected
  • Employee retention credit available for businesses affected by COVID-19

Fact Sheet:

  • Calculating the Economic Impact Payment

e-Posters:

YouTube videos:

 

May 11, 2020

The IRS continues to create outreach materials to address people’s questions about coronavirus-related tax relief and Economic Impact Payments. The IRS is also working to deliver Economic Impact Payments as quickly as possible to all eligible Americans. More than 150 million payments will be sent out, and millions of people who normally don’t file a tax return are eligible to receive these payments.

To reach these people outside of the tax system, the IRS is asking for your help to spread the word, so more people sign up for these payments worth $1,200 per individual or more. The IRS has created special information and graphics that you can use, share and adapt in your communications, including material suitable for emails, newsletters, websites and other channels. We need your help in sharing these important outreach materials with your families, friends, partners and clients. This week’s outreach bundle includes materials on Economic Impact Payments and related scams, as well as collection and exam focused tax relief and employer credits.

For additional information, visit IRS.gov/coronavirus.

Products/Resources

Tax Tips: 

  • What people really want to know about Economic Impact Payments (Top FAQs) (English)
  • What people really want to know about Economic Impact Payments (Top FAQs) (Spanish)
  • IRS People First Initiative provides relief to taxpayers (exam focused) (English)
  • IRS People First Initiative provides relief to taxpayers (exam focused) (Spanish)
  • IRS People First Initiative provides relief to taxpayers facing COVID-19 issues (collection focused) (English)
  • IRS People First Initiative provides relief to taxpayers facing COVID-19 issues (collection focused) (Spanish)

Ready-to-use articles:

  • If you receive certain benefits, your Economic Impact Payment will automatically go on your Direct Express Card
  • Employee retention credit for businesses affected by COVID-19
  • New employer credit available for paid sick leave
  • New employer credit available for paid family leave

​ e-Posters:

  • Economic Impact Payments flowchart
  • Economic Impact Payments for Americans experiencing homelessness

YouTube video:

Additional Resources

Here are a few additional resources that we have curated to help keep you informed.