AICPA recommends improvements to CP53E notice process
June 16, 2026
The IRS should provide additional guidance on CP53E notices, the AICPA said, after the agency sent the notices to 3 million taxpayers, seeking bank account information and prompting widespread concern.
“Implementing our recommendations and increasing public outreach will help to reduce confusion and protect taxpayers who are exempt from the electronic fund requirement,” the AICPA said in a June 9 letter to Ken Corbin, the IRS chief of Taxpayer Services.
The IRS, in response to Executive Order 14247, created the CP53E notice before the most recent filing season as part of the transition from paper checks to electronic payments and deposits. The notice asks taxpayers to add or update bank account information through their IRS online accounts to enable direct deposit for refunds.
The AICPA recommended in its recent letter that the IRS should provide additional guidance clarifying the reasons that a CP53E notice would be issued, indicating what actions are required in each circumstance and explaining the agency’s limitations on the use of direct deposit information. Learn more.
