The IRS won’t likely be making unannounced home visits to collect unpaid taxes as they have for years. The decision to change the practice of showing up at taxpayers' houses without notice has been described by IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel as a "common-sense step."
Previously, revenue officers might have conducted tens of thousands of unannounced visits to taxpayers’ homes, according to the IRS. Now, as the agency eliminates most of those visits, that number is expected to drop, considerably, to a few hundred per year.
