Decades of neglect leave IRS in tax season 'chaos'
Posted By: Ribicon, 3/5/2022 10:21:15 AM
Washington—At the Internal Revenue Service's sprawling Kansas City, Missouri, processing center, teams of clerks earning $15 per hour work through the night, trying to help the agency clear a backlog of more than 20 million tax returns that are a year overdue. The conditions are subpar: Scanners sputter, forcing workers to enter data by hand, staplers are scarce, and piles of tax documents overflow from carts. "The general theme for the time I've been there has been chaos," said Shawn Gunn, a clerk in the receipt and operations group at the IRS who started working at the facility in Kansas City in June and is transitioning to become
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This is one of the agencies that a true reformer would close down in the first week in office, as it produces nothing but drag on the economy and causes personal and business decisions to be made according to the ever-changing tax code rather than rational reasons. As described, they have 75,000 employees and want to hire more, they're completely inefficient, and just wasted $69 million on a system that would require facial scans of tax filers looking to access the system.