Posted on 12/18/2014 3:10:55 PM PST by Jim Robinson
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Budget cuts at the IRS could delay tax refunds, reduce taxpayer services and hurt enforcement efforts, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Thursday.
About half the people who call the IRS for assistance this filing season won't be able to get through to a person, Koskinen said. Once tax returns are filed, there will be fewer agents to audit them.
"Everybody's return will get processed," Koskinen told reporters. "But people have gotten very used to being able to file their return and quickly getting a refund. This year we may not have the resources, the people to provide refunds as quickly as we have in the past."
In recent years, the IRS says it was able to issue most tax refunds within 21 days, if the returns were filed electronically. Koskinen wouldn't estimate how long they might be delayed in the upcoming filing season, which is just a few weeks away.
Congress cut the IRS budget by $346 million for the budget year that ends in September 2015. The $10.9 billion budget is $1.2 billion less than the agency received in 2010.
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The Chicago way. Cut the good part, the rest is business as usual. If there is a budget to process the returns, Congress needs to hammer them why it is not being used.
Obama’s little Shut Down Torture for you all ,but he doesn’t approve of torture
In other news:
IRS Gave $14.5 Billion in Low-Income Tax Credits to the Wrong People
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3236925/posts
Scare tactics. Won’t work.
Bastids already have a 12 billion dollar budget. Yet they want more, more, more.
Who has tax refunds? It’s silly to let the government keep your money without paying you interest. Ideally, you should owe about $10.
I will not have a refund to worry about, as I will owe at tax time. I wonder if I could claim that budget cuts prevent me from sending in my payment on time...
I charge 20% annual interest.
That’s the first thing that came to my mind. Would be something if this kind of government chicanery started a tax revolt.
Hey, it’s not like the Treasury can just print money!
I have bonuses that have withholding done at a higher rate than my normal tax rate. I have worked with my HR department but my refunds usually average around $1,400.00 and I have no way to change it.
Boo Freaken Hoo! They probably waste that much each just year in ass wipe!
FU IRS
The very first thing to be cut from the IRS budget is the weasel Koskinen’s salary, Americans would benefit greatly.
The IRS are incompetent scum.
this is such BS aimed at ignorant gemi-dat’s that don’t know how the the government even works
what budget cuts
Or just say you E-mailed them and they must have been lost...
The IRS: something jaz & I can agree on... LOL! :)
Have congress pass a bill where anyone owed a refund will automatically have their witholding deducted.
as employees get bonuses..
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