IRS in crisis: 'File as quickly as possible,' says tax specialist

WASHINGTON (TND) — Tax filing season starts Jan. 24, and experts say the IRS is in crisis as they face staffing shortages and a backlog of six million unprocessed tax returns from 2020.

“Unfortunately, this has been a slow-moving train wreck for decades now,” said Brandon Arnold from the National Taxpayers Union to The National Desk. “Right now, you're 42% of printers not functioning; you have software technology at the IRS that is rooted back in the 1960s."

On top of a backlog of millions of unprocessed individual returns, the Internal Revenue Service had 2.3 million unprocessed amended returns and two million unprocessed employer’s quarterly returns, according to a report by the National Taxpayer Advocate.

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