Time to bring in the surge team.
Two weeks ago, the Internal Revenue Service said it was reassigning 1,200 staffers as a “surge team” of reinforcements tasked with cutting into a backlog that included millions of unprocessed returns from last year.
“The IRS is working quickly to engage a second surge team to help alleviate inventory backlog and best serve taxpayers,” the agency said in a statement Thursday. The IRS said it is “exploring every avenue to help reduce the inventory of tax returns while working to have a strong filing season.” “They can move all these employees over. It’s still going to be a very time-consuming challenge,” Collins told senators.
The backlog dates back to the pandemic’s early days, when the IRS temporarily closed its operations. That put the agency behind the eight ball during two years when it’s had to juggle the distribution of stimulus checks, child tax credit payments and changes to the tax code.
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