The same wonderful computer systems that regularly spit out letters to businesses that haven’t existed in decades (nor do they actually have any out stand taxes owed).
The same supposedly upgrades systems that cost huge sums of money, all for the sake of preventing fraudulent returns (ID theft being a primary target), that actually opened the door to much greater ID theft and fraudulent tax returns...
The same systems that “miss” data that has been correctly provided, resulting in threatening letters and even audits that require repeated submissions of the same forms...
The same wonderful system that sent more than $46 million in tax refunds to 23,994 “unauthorized” alien workers who all listed the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011.
Around 2008 they gave up on their old master file system and just starting putting all returns in a new one, which actually works pretty well.
Now paper 1099’s still get scanned by high speed OCR scanners and stored electronically in another system.
But if you’re an IRS employee and want to access those 1099’s, they have to print them off and send them to you via inter-office mail.
File paper.
As a kid in the 70s, I remember part of a weekly (now worker) reader about how things were regarding society. The part that still sticks at the lamentation about a computer with cards that crumbled that belonged to that jbt organization.
The same computer system that can’t match 2000 refunds going to same address for same tax year.
Brought to you by the same government that brought you the Obamacare website.
Brought to you by the same Sec. of the Treasury who cheated on his own taxes.