Tag Archive: "IRS"
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Here We Go Again (IRS Edition)
Each year as required by the Internal Revenue Code, the National Taxpayer Advocate submits its annual report to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Committee on Finance. Erin Collins of the Taxpayer Advocate Service reported that the IRS had a backlog of over 35 million tax returns at the end of […]
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More Evidence of the IRS’ Recent Struggles
National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins recently released her mid-year report to Congress, and much of it mirrored what was already covered in the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s interim report. According to Ms. Collins, the IRS struggled to complete their regular job functions during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that is without factoring in the […]
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IRS Continues to Struggle
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) recently issued an interim report on the IRS’s 2021 filing season, including information related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The primary objective was to evaluate whether the IRS processed individual paper and electronically filed tax returns during the 2021 filing season, including the processing of […]