Republicans don’t believe in the federal government or taxes on rich people. They cut IRS funding and then complain about the service.
make the IRS great again https://t.co/GRgg13n4Lo
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 4, 2022
The IRS’s problems were made at the hands of Republican budget cuts, one reader writes in #PostLetters https://t.co/d0JFm9mu4q
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) February 16, 2022
IRS stokes frustrations over refund delays by pushing online solutions it knows don’t work https://t.co/TGTxGDTxUN
— Fast Company (@FastCompany) March 4, 2022
The IRS is planning on hiring 10,000 new workers to help the agency reduce its backlog of millions of unprocessed tax returns and other mail https://t.co/nGnPGtK9U7
— POLITICO (@politico) March 4, 2022
IRS rushes to hire 10,000 workers but giant backlog expected to persist through 2022 https://t.co/tFKPI1Wfxv
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 4, 2022
A new report from @TRACReports claims that the IRS has been increasing its tax audits of the lowest-income wage earners to keep its overall audit numbers from declining. #IRS #taxaudit https://t.co/YJsB27vtP0
— Accountancy Slice (@AccountsSlice) March 9, 2022
The IRS is announcing plans to hire 10,000 new workers to help reduce a massive backlog that the Biden administration says will make this tax season the most challenging in history. https://t.co/q0hIsj2YXd
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 11, 2022
Americans can’t get their refund checks on time or their calls answered by the IRS. And tax dodgers know the chances of an audit have been substantially reduced because of Republican budget cuts.https://t.co/q5vmf311iz
— Lloyd Doggett (@RepLloydDoggett) March 18, 2022
Perspective: The real reason the IRS is behind in processing tax returns https://t.co/1ECVM7JZZb
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 3, 2022
At the IRS in Austin, cafeteria is overrun with paper returns awaiting processing by campus’s dedicated employees who will *keystroke* line items into the IRS’s database
— Natasha Sarin (@NatashaRSarin) June 11, 2022
Investing in the IRS essential to overhaul this manual system, so agency can serve taxpayers way they deserve pic.twitter.com/jDZsz01uv4
Perspective: This tax season, IRS answered just 10 percent of taxpayer calls https://t.co/bvtHRBE3Ls
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 26, 2022
👀Treasury Secretary Yellen on the IRS:
— Joseph Zeballos-Roig (@josephzeballos) June 7, 2022
"The IRS is horrendously under-resourced. It has fewer staff than it did 40 years ago.. it's operating with technology from the 1960s using a programming language that is archaic and no longer taught in any school in the country"
The backlog of tax returns at the IRS has grown to more than 20 million in the last year despite efforts by the Biden administration to process filings and send out refunds more quickly, according to a new report from a independent watchdog. https://t.co/rfrdNI5Tn4
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) June 22, 2022
Sad! 