The Louisiana Department of Revenue says its tax processing systems are not impacted by the Internal Revenue Service’s current system outage.
According to its website, the IRS experienced a hardware failure Wednesday afternoon that affected a number of federal tax processing systems. Several of its systems, including the e-file system, were unavailable and would remain that way until today.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the IRS says a number of taxpayer and tax practitioner tools are unavailable. IRS.gov remains available, although a number of the services on the site are not, including Where’s My Refund, the agency says in its statement.
“The IRS is currently in the process of making repairs and working to restore normal operations as soon as possible. We anticipate some of the systems will remain unavailable until tomorrow,” the agency says in a statement released Wednesday. “The IRS remains in close contact with e-file software transmitters and the tax community during this period.”
In a news release sent this morning, LDR says taxpayers can continue to file and prepare their state tax returns as they normally would.
Taxpayers can use commercial tax preparation software to prepare their filings or visit the state’s free web portal, Louisiana File Online.
The department also says it is implementing measures to protect Louisiana taxpayers against increased occurrences fraud and as a result refunds will take additional time to process.
Returns filed electronically could take up to 60 days, the department says. Taxpayers filing paper returns should expect to wait 12 to 14 weeks.
