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\nAccording to a recently released report to Congress from the Taxpayer Advocate Service, \u201cthe IRS is in crisis.\u201d The report cites three reasons for this: the COVID-19 pandemic, severe budget cuts over the years and new IRS responsibilities resulting from COVID-19 relief laws. \u201cDuring 2021, tens of millions of taxpayers were forced to wait extraordinarily long periods of time for the IRS to process their tax returns, issue their refunds, and address their correspondence,\u201d the report states. In fact, taxpayers visited the IRS\u2019s Where\u2019s My Refund webpage 632 million times in 2021, compared to 369 million in 2019, a nearly 70% increase. For more information: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3fjceRo<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
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According to a recently released report to Congress from the Taxpayer Advocate Service, \u201cthe IRS is in crisis.\u201d The report cites three reasons for this: the COVID-19 pandemic, severe budget cuts over the years and new IRS responsibilities resulting from COVID-19 relief laws. \u201cDuring 2021, tens of millions of taxpayers were forced to wait extraordinarily […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ift.tax\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}