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The IRS backlog saga...
[FoxNews] An audit of the Internal Revenue Service found staffers destroyed 30 million taxpayer documents, as they faced a massive backlog.
Always keep a copy of everything you send them as well as post office receipts, just in case.
However, the tax collection agency says no taxpayers were adversely affected by the destruction.
Clearly the IRS trusts that most taxpayers are pretty honest.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration made three recommendations for the IRS to improve its processing of paper tax forms and promote more e-filing. However, the IRS disagreed with two of the recommendations.

"This audit was initiated because the IRS’s continued inability to process backlogs of paper-filed tax returns contributed to management’s decision to destroy an estimated 30 million paper-filed information return documents in March 2021," says the TIGTA report signed by Michael E. McKenney, the deputy inspector general for audit. "The IRS uses these documents to conduct post-processing compliance matches to identify taxpayers who do not accurately report their income."

The IRS issued a public statement last week regarding the inspector general report first released on May 4.

"There were no negative taxpayer consequences as a result of this action," the IRS statement says. "Taxpayers or payers have not been and will not be subject to penalties resulting from this action."

The destroyed tax documents included W-2 forms and 1099 forms, according to the inspector general. The IRS responded to the inspector general with inaccurate responses, according to the report.


Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-05-22
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