The IRS announced it will open a number of Taxpayer Assistance Centers across the country on select Saturdays during the filing season
notices or other pertinent documents. Taxpayers might also need to have on-hand their bank account information for the purpose of paying or receiving direct deposits.unprocessed returns
as of mid-December. By the end of the month that total had been whittled down to around 7 million, but remained far above the typical backlog of roughly 1 million returns at the start of the filing season. The agency has carried a heavier-than-usual load over the past two years or so, being tasked with distributing multiple rounds of pandemic-related stimulus checks with a reduced workforce, and was handed the additional responsibility of sending monthly Advanced Child Tax Credit payments last year under President Biden. last month that the IRS's customer service level is "not what the American public deserves" and urged Congress to provide more funding to the agency.
But the administration's call for more funding for the agency has been aimed at giving it greater enforcement powers in the name of closing the "tax gap" to fill government coffers and fund further multi-trillion-dollar spending initiatives.
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