National Taxpayer Advocate Releases Annual Report to U.S. Congress

The National Taxpayer Advocate announced the delivery of the 2022 Annual Report to Congress on 11 January 2023, which identifies issues and provides recommendations for improvement. A summary of the ten most serious problems includes the following:

PROCESSING DELAYS

Paper Backlogs Caused Refund Delays for Millions of Taxpayers

The IRS still depends on outdated manual practices and a human assembly line for its paper processing operations, and paper is its Kryptonite. For the past 2.5 y…