The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has sent out an e-mail to the payroll industry indicating that it sent out erroneous Failure to Deposit Notices. Following is the text of that e-mail:

Here is important information regarding notices for Failure to Deposit penalties which may have been sent in error. Please share with your clients as appropriate.

Some monthly and daily deposits of payroll taxes are being treated as late in error.

Due to the observed holiday on April 15, 2016, (Washington DC Emancipation Day), deposits were not due until April 18, 2016. IRS recently identified a programming error causing deposits made after April 15, 2016, to be considered late, even though they were made timely by April 18, 2016. In some instances, taxpayers were assessed failure to deposit penalties as a result.

IRS is working to resolve the issue and correct the erroneous penalty assessments in the near future. No taxpayer action is required at this time. Those affected will receive correspondence when the issue is resolved. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The notice in question, is generally titled, Your Federal Tax Deposit wasn’t submitted correctly. In the bottom section, it will list the Date due as 04/15/2016 and the Date received as 04/18/2016. At this time, you may ignore any such notice and the IRS will issue correspondence to correct the erroneous notices. Please contact Vision Payroll if you have any further questions.