This year, millions of taxpayers are awaiting the processing of their tax returns and receipt of their refunds. The backlog—unprocessed returns and correspondence sent to the IRS but yet unanswered—has created one of the most challenging tax filing seasons in our nation’s history. The IRS is therefore taking an all-hands-on-deck approach to hire and surge thousands of employees to tackle the backlog, increase taxpayer assistance to reduce processing delays, and develop and deploy updated technology to automate functions.

As the fact sheet notes, however, these approaches are short-term salves for 2022’s tax season but do not address the much deeper structural problem at the IRS. Thus, providing the IRS the resources it needs to rebuild and modernize into the 21st century is critical to ensuring that the agency is able to serve the American people and the nation. Read more >>