Outages for the Internal Revenue Service's e-Services will occur this month as it enters the final stages of a technology upgrade.
There will be a complete outage of all e-Services tools, including registration, the transcript delivery system and TIN matching from 6 p.m. (EST), Thursday, Aug. 17, until 6 a.m. (EST), Monday, Aug. 21.
Applications also will be offline and resume Aug. 22, except for state users.
E-Services must be taken offline to complete the platform transition and to perform testing. This outage will affect all users, including bulk users such as IVES and TIN Matching.
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