Bloomberg Tax
April 21, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC

The IRS Waiting Game Is Disrupting the Lives of Taxpayers

Kelly Phillips Erb
Kelly Phillips Erb
Editor

Tax season wrapped a few days ago for most taxpayers. Now comes the waiting game.

When it comes to the IRS, waiting isn’t new. For years, we’ve complained about processing delays and gaps in response times on everything from petitions to correspondence.

But this year, it took on a completely different meaning.

On March 9, 2022, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration released a report about the IRS’s 2021 filing season. As of the week ending Dec. 28, 2019, the IRS had 183,000 paper tax returns waiting to be processed. By the same time in 2020, the agency had ...

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