A view of an IRS 1040 Tax Form on a Laptop computer screen being prepared for an electronic filing. WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service will delay the start of tax filing season until Feb.
12, 2021, which pushes the date when the tax agency will begin accepting and processing 2020 tax year returns.On Friday, the agency said the start date for individual tax return filers will allow the IRS time to do additional programming and testing following the Dec.
27 tax law changes, which provided a second round of COVID-19 stimulus relief checks and other benefits.President Trump has previously signaled that he supports sending a second round of direct cash payments to Americans."This programming work is critical to ensuring IRS systems run.