Posted on 11/06/2019 7:17:22 AM PST by DFG
Anyone who deals with the IRS on a regular basis knows that the agency is in trouble: IRS employees are less able than ever to effectively and efficiently handle their work. The internal problems facing the agency were greatly exacerbated by the 35-day government shutdown that began in late December of last year. But the shutdown is not by any means solely responsible for the agency’s dire situation.
To put all this in better perspective, let me give you pictures of what the agency looked like before the shutdown, and what it has looked like after the shutdown.
What the IRS Faced before the Five-Week Shutdown According to the National Taxpayer Advocate’s 2018 annual report, the shutdown
Could not have come at a worse time for the IRS — facing its first filing season implementing a massive new tax law, with a completely restructured tax form. As I outline below, the IRS is entering the filing season inundated with correspondence, phone calls, and inventories of unresolved prior year audits and identity theft cases.
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#12 We had an office that routinely was slow on Friday doing the payroll upload. Always would finish after hours when the other hundreds of offices had finished earlier in the day.
The big boss in the region fired one manager then their replacement as it continued. They then closed the office and moved the functions to another office for awhile. Later a new office was opened in the area but with new employees.
The jokes just write themselves. Thanks DFG.
We need a flat income tax, lower rate, and a sales tax to nick all the illegals and other criminals.
True. I meant to say cases. There is loads of fraud but little conviction. I bet EITC is majority fraud.
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