Treasury Says $80B IRS Funding Boost Improved 2024 Response

Monday, April 15, 2024

With the IRS' deadline for tax filing season 2024 counting down to midnight, the Treasury Department reported Monday that $80 billion additional funding from the Inflation Reduction Act meant the IRS had easily exceeded new targets.

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... The federal tax agency's level of service for phone queries hit 88%, topping the 85% target, slashed call waiting times from almost 30 minutes to 3 minutes, saving taxpayers 1.4 million hours waiting on hold and dealt with a million more calls than in the 2023 filing season, the Treasury said in a news release.

The introduction of paperless filing and other new technology also was hailed with taxpayers availing themselves of a new and improved "Where's My Refund" online tool 275 million times while the number of taxpayers who received face-to-face help at 70 walk-in assistance centers across the country jumped by 170,000 -- with the centers offering special hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

"Thanks to resources from President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS has built on the progress made during filing season 2023, delivering world class service in filing season 2024. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-15 01:36 PM | Reply

Well we can't have an efficient IRS!

- GQP Republiturds.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-04-15 01:37 PM | Reply

OpEd: The Inflation Reduction Act Unleashes A Tougher IRS (August 2022)
www.forbes.com

... Only the Criminal Investigation Division of the IRS can carry guns, but the IRS has been buying more guns and ammunition in recent years, snapping up nearly $700,000 in ammo in early 2022. The bullet buy prompted Representatives Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Jeff Duncan (R-SC) to introduce the "Disarm the IRS Act," to prohibit the IRS from buying ammunition.

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tweeted, "87,000 IRS agents will be hired with $80 billion taxpayer dollars when the Senate Reconciliation bill passes this weekend. And they're buying more guns & ammo too.

Lower to middle income Americans & small businesses will be the primary targets of Democrat's new IRS force." ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-15 01:41 PM | Reply

Well, as the season wraps, I've certainly noticed a huge uptick in responses, and response time.

Call me crazy, but I believe it's incumbent on government to be able to answer how do I pay my taxes correctly?

#4 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-04-15 01:47 PM | Reply

@#4 ... I've certainly noticed a huge uptick in responses, and response time. ...

I expect there is still more to be done.

However, given the battle the GOP put up to get the IRS funding in the Inflation Reduction Act, I'm not holding my breath for additional funding.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-15 02:00 PM | Reply

A large part of the IRS funding can't be rescinded, since a chunk is going to the large-scale system overhaul.

And, of course the rhetoric about the "armed agents" is nothing but partisan bullschittt. The majority of "new"
agents are replacing old ones, and the vast majority of those won't be carrying guns. But ultimately, they will be able to focus on some higher-end scofflaws. It's about time.

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-04-15 03:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

The people who say "guns don't kill people" are telling us to be worried about armed IRS agents.

What's the concern, since guns don't kill people?

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-15 04:03 PM | Reply

Hundreds turned away from Atlanta IRS office as tax deadline looms
www.fox5atlanta.com

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-15 04:28 PM | Reply

What's the concern, since guns don't kill people?
#7 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

If I were a young black man I would be concerned.
~ Snoofy

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-15 04:30 PM | Reply

@#8 ... Hundreds turned away from Atlanta IRS office as tax deadline looms ...

I wonder what that would have been like if the IRS had not beem able to gear up their support capabilities.

Something else I wonder... of those complaining about the IRS and lines and wait times, how many were opposed to the IRS getting additional funding in the Inflation Reduction Act?

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-15 05:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Something I noticed doing my taxes this year. All of the IRS processing centers are in red states-KY, MO, OH, TX, NC and Utah.

Odd.

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-04-15 05:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This isn't at all about making an efficient democracy and USA government. It is all about giving our taxes away to other countries like Ukraine and Israel instead of fixing America. What have either of these countries ever done to make USA better? NAME one thing that is meaningful?

#12 | Posted by Robson at 2024-04-15 08:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

All of the IRS processing centers are in red states-KY, MO, OH, TX, NC and Utah.

Odd.

Why Odd??

Sounds like it was announced in Sept 2016.

"consolidation was announced in September 2016"

The closures are a part of consolidation efforts which began in 2003 under then serving IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson. Those efforts led to a consolidation of ten sites into five locations that process paper tax returns: locations were Covington, Kentucky/Cincinnati; Fresno, California; Austin, Texas; Kansas City, Missouri; and Ogden, Utah. Following the closures announced this fall, only two sites that process paper returns would remain open after 2024: Kansas City, Missouri, and Ogden, Utah.
www.forbes.com

Who mails in their returns? I haven't since I have been in the US.

#13 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-15 08:48 PM | Reply

I wonder what that would have been like if the IRS had not beem able to gear up their support capabilities.

Didn't happen last year.

So I guess better?

#14 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-15 08:49 PM | Reply

Israel and Ukraine are both geopolitically important the West...

Supporting Israel and Ukraine promotes stability across the globe

thehill.com

www.ajc.org

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2024-04-15 08:49 PM | Reply

of those complaining about the IRS and lines and wait times, how many were opposed to the IRS getting additional funding in the Inflation Reduction Act?
#10 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Idk they looked like last elections Biden voters. ... . So again ... what's your point?

#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-15 08:50 PM | Reply

#15 | POSTED BY CORKY

I don't believe Ukraine is ...

If Ukraine disappeared tomorrow no one in the West would notice.

Except for Biolabs, for some reason the US puts biolabs in places that have little regulation.

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-15 08:51 PM | Reply

#17

Yes, but you're an accomplished idiot.

Europe would notice... and go to war over it. And so would we if they did.

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2024-04-15 08:57 PM | Reply

@#16 ... Idk they looked like last elections Biden voters. ... . So again ... what's your point? ...

The first part of your current alias' comment is that it does not know.

In response to a question I poised.

So maybe, the appropriate question to ask is, what is your current alias' point?

Let me ask again...
... Something else I wonder... of those complaining about the IRS and lines and wait times, how many were opposed to the IRS getting additional funding in the Inflation Reduction Act? ...

#19 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-15 09:08 PM | Reply

@#12 ... This isn't at all about making an efficient democracy and USA government. It is all about giving our taxes away to other countries like Ukraine and Israel instead of fixing America. ...

Got links, or any other manner of substantiation?

Or is your comment it's usual phlegm on thread?

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-15 09:10 PM | Reply

phlegm
www.cancer.gov

... A more than normal amount of thick mucus made by the cells lining the upper airways and lungs. A buildup of phlegm may be caused by infection, irritation, or chronic lung disease, and can cause discomfort in the chest and coughing. ...

#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-15 09:11 PM | Reply

#12 | POSTED BY ROBSON

Foreign aid comprises less than $100 billion per year. A shot glass in the bucket...

#22 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2024-04-16 06:08 PM | Reply

#12 | POSTED BY ROBSON

Ukraine is fighting our enemy Russia for us at 1/100 the cost.
Israel...well...they make our lives harder.
The rest of the foreign aid basically buys us a huge bullying stick to get these countries to do what we want and keep them open to trade. (Hint: One of the best investments we've ever made)

#23 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-04-17 01:41 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Kind of hard to do worse than 2023. The inspector general report was pretty harsh.

"As of last summer, 63% of new audits targeted taxpayers with income of less than $200,000," reports the Journal. "Only a small overall share reached the very highest earners, while 80% of audits covered filers earning less than $1 million."

"It's almost like they didn't tell us the truth the first time around. But that's not even the most embarrassing thing in the report: The IRS had set a goal of hiring 3,700 new agents in the first year of boosted funding. Instead, in the first six months, they'd hired 34.

Awkwardly, "revenue agent staffing had actually decreased by 8%, or more than 650 employees, between the end of fiscal 2019 and March 2023," per a previous watchdog report. And it's not just hiring that's in trouble: The agency has completed just 33 percent of its fiscal year 2023 milestones outlined in its strategic operating plan, which is ... tough given that the year is over."

#24 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-04-17 04:58 PM | Reply

Ukraine is fighting our enemy Russia for us at 1/100 the cost.

So? Russia doesn't have to be the enemy of the US.

Putin was looking for coop, and talking under Clinton.

I don't see why before the war the US didn't demand to discuss options with Russia.

My guess through implication is the US leadership wanted Russia to invade. Russia wanted to invade, without alternative.

Everyone got what they wanted,but Ukraine, it's citizens and the US tax payers.

#25 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-17 05:29 PM | Reply

The Don't Doctrine wins again.

#26 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-17 05:30 PM | Reply

"income of less than $200,000"

^
Hard to put in perspective without knowing their total wealth.

#27 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-17 05:46 PM | Reply