[Pollard]

The IRS said it will recall a “significant portion” of its roughly 52,000 furloughed employees to work on tax returns. The agency also announced the Jan. 28 date to start processing returns. That’s within the normal timeframe.

[FlingWingFlyer]

This must be the reason the far left snowflakes came out with their taking pelicans across state lines fiasco this morning. They needed something else.

[mountainlion]

“shutdown could not have come at a worse time for the Internal Revenue Service”

It was a gift to the employees giving them extra Christmas and New Years holidays they were not charged for.

[Flick Lives]

The IRS knows if they withhold refunds, fillers can roll their refund into this years taxes and then reduce withholding. Either way, the IRS is not keeping the overpayments.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Does anyone know if Congress is getting paid while this goes on?

[Rapscallion]

There will be no one at IRS to process incoming tax returns or to issue the refunds manually. Might work with electronic filing but I doubt it.