Posted on 07/26/2015 11:46:16 AM PDT by Libloather
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Overall, only 37 percent of people who called the IRS seeking to talk to a person reached one, the report said. That's the lowest rate over the past decade, by far.
For those who got through, the average time on hold was 23 minutes.
About 50 million callers reached out to the IRS for help during the tax season. Help lines were so overloaded that the system hung up on 8.8 million callers, the report said. That's a huge jump from last year, when the IRS hung up on 544,000 callers.
The IRS calls the hang-ups "courtesy disconnects," because the system hangs up early in the call, rather than making callers wait on hold, only to be disconnected later.
"It is important to note that the IRS must carefully balance limited resources to meet its dual mission of providing taxpayer service and enforcing the tax laws," the IRS said in a statement. "With 75 percent of our budget being personnel, and one-third of our workforce providing taxpayer service, the continuing cuts to our budget have severely hampered our ability to provide taxpayers with the services they need and deserve."
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maybe if you didnt have to keep buying hard drives. Just stating the obvious.
But yet PLENTY OF MONEY to audit the groups and individuals that obama deemed “enemy of the people”
Vindictive incompetent clowns — this is what the IRS tends to become under Democrat domination.
Remember those days of yesteryear when we 1) actually thought smart people went into the gubmit, 2) honest people went into the gubmit, and 3) we actually trusted the idiots?
Remember when politicians (most of whom have never had, nor ever will have a real job) implied that the military was for the less capable?
Now, of course, it is well known that our gubmit consists largely of clowns, felons, law degrees (explains the previous) and our military just may be the thing that saves us, since they are the only outfit left with morals and standards.
Yet they have the money to identify and selective persecute conservatives.
I’m kinda OK with the IRS struggling with budget cuts. So I guess it’s not all bad news.
And pay GREAT retirements to unprosecuted IRS felons who do the persecution...
I hope they have so many cuts it’s impossible to process tax filings. Hehe
Sadly, that's the only form of "tax-reform" our corrupt, byzantine progressive government will be able to manage.
Democrats love tax money as they view is as “free money” they can spend in ways to attain more political power. Starving the IRS beast also threatens the more basic Democratic party goal of spending other people's money.
I have absolutely no problem with continuing to tighten the screws on the IRS until their Inspector Generals turn on some of the political hacks for the good of the organization and the good of the Country. It is time that the illegal IRS political enemies intimidation tactics ended for all time.
If they weren’t so busy degaussing backup tapes maybe they could answer the phone.
The IRS budget should be cut to zero.
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