IRS in chaos: Nearly 35 million tax returns
are STILL unprocessed and just 3% of
phone calls are being answered as
Americans try for months to get through
to a human on the other end
Posted By: Imright, 7/6/2021 12:27:52 AM
The Internal Revenue Service is facing a backlog of 35 million unprocessed tax returns, according to a government watchdog, as the pandemic and economic relief efforts combined to overwhelm the agency and force some people to spend hours chasing their overdue refunds.The National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA) submits two reports to Congress each year: an Annual Report, delivered in January, and an Objectives Report, delivered in June.In its most recent report, the NTA states: 'It was perhaps the most challenging filing season taxpayers, tax professionals, and the IRS have ever experienced.'One of their most important phone lines - the 1040 customer support lines for individual tax returns - reported that only
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for President in 2024, According to New Report 35 replies
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