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On August 19, 2026, the IRS announced a new Office of Conservation Easements and immediately ended the uniform settlement initiative it had launched only three months earlier on May 13, after finding that standardized letters with fixed deadlines did not fit the range of pending easement cases

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On August 19, 2026, the Internal Revenue Service announced in IR-2026-95 that it was establishing a new Office of Conservation Easements and, at the same time, ending the uniform settlement initiative it had launched only 98 days earlier. The May 13 program was intended to move a large inventory of pending cases toward resolution. The agency now says standardized letters with fixed response deadlines were not well suited to the range of cases it was trying to settle.
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