{"id":1747,"date":"2026-01-12T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/how-to-access-your-irs-online-account-before-tax-season-opens\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:46:01","slug":"how-to-access-your-irs-online-account-before-tax-season-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/12\/how-to-access-your-irs-online-account-before-tax-season-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"How to access your IRS online account before tax season opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction to the 2026 Tax Season<\/h2>\n<p>The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is gearing up for the 2026 tax season, with several changes and updates in store for taxpayers. As the IRS faces tax changes enacted via President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;big beautiful bill&#8221; and staffing cuts, it&#8217;s essential for taxpayers to be aware of the potential impact on processing and customer service. According to a September report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, an independent federal agency, the workforce reductions could affect 17% to 19% of &#8220;key IRS functions&#8221; for the filing season.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these challenges, the IRS is ready to help taxpayers meet their tax filing and payment obligations during the 2026 filing season, according to IRS CEO Frank Bisignano. The IRS expects roughly 164 million individual income tax returns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to the 2026 Tax Season The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is gearing up for the 2026 tax season, with several changes and updates in store for taxpayers. As the IRS faces tax changes enacted via President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;big beautiful bill&#8221; and staffing cuts, it&#8217;s essential for taxpayers to be aware of the potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/107391644-1711127842992-gettyimages-1431662879-dsc01496.jpeg?v=1767981167&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosahustle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}