Irs To Go Paperless By 2025. The irs wednesday announced an ambitious digitization effort that will give taxpayers the option to go paperless for all irs correspondence by 2024 filing season and provide the added benefit of reducing tax evasion by wealthy. The irs expects its paperless processing initiative will eliminate up to 200 million pieces of paper annually, cut processing times in half, and expedite refunds by several weeks.

The irs initiative is working toward a fully paperless system by 2025, but changes will be made in stages over the next two years. The irs says its new paperless processing initiative will cut processing times in half and expedite refunds by several weeks.