Has anyone ever called the Internal Revenue Service and immediately received a person on the other end of the phone to take your call? Over the last few years, #taxpayer services have improved dramatically, but there is still a long way to go to modernize the organization - and the #IRS admits this as well. That's why it is troubling that the answer to the IRS modernization problem seems to be to cut funding and fire up to half of the IRS employees.
The funding bill passed by the House last night now goes to the Senate for passage by Friday - and in it, is another $20B in IRA-funding recissions. This will leave the IRS with almost no IRA funding left, struggling to make payroll this year, and facing RIFs and modernization challenges. The long-term question is what these cuts will do to #revenue for our country and #compliance in our tax system. The immediate question involves how this will affect taxpayers who are trying to file their taxes. The IRS says it already takes an average of 493 days to close an issue if you have an error or an issue with your #tax return. Does anyone think that number will go down with these cuts?