IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig on Tuesday sounded the alarm over the agency's massive backlog of unprocessed returns, which he warned could lead to a “challenging” tax season.
Commissioner Chuck Rettig on Tuesday sounded the alarm over the agency's massive backlog of unprocessed returns, which he warned could lead to a "challenging" tax season.
"We have taken extraordinary measures to work through unprocessed returns and correspondence, including mandatory overtime by IRS employees, creating and redirecting surge teams to address the inventories, temporarily suspending certain automated compliance notices and, where possible, modernizing operating systems to accelerate the manual processing of inventories," he wrote.
Although Rettig said the IRS has already issued 4 million refunds worth about $10 billion so far, the tax-collecting agency is staring down a tax season that promises to bring complications and potential delays for taxpayers, given an IRS worker shortage, the Herculean task of administering millions of stimulus checks and adapting to other pandemic-related tax changes, and a massive backlog of unprocessed paper returns.
There are fresh challenges facing the IRS this year: Taxpayers will have to reflect the monthly child tax credit payments and the stimulus checks they received in 2021 on their returns, further complicating matters and increasing the likelihood of errors and delays in processing returns.
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