See the commentary snippet below. With funding diminishing each year, the IRS just can't keep up:
The IRS continues to struggle with backlogs, telephone service issues, and hiring during the pandemic, according to its watchdog.
The agency still hadn't finished processing more than 2 million paper returns from last year as of March 20, and was suffering from a number of other work backlogs, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report released Friday.
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