IRS Reassigns Employees to Help Address Backlog
The IRS recently announced that it is reassigning employees who used to process tax returns and related paperwork back to their old jobs for the next eight months to help address the agency’s backlog that began during the start of the pandemic.
The IRS stated that 1,200 former customer service representatives, tax examiners, clerks and others who had support experience at IRS offices within the last two fiscal years are being reassigned. Positions not directly involved with case closures, such as managers and analysts, are not being moved.
The IRS began the tax filing season this year with more than 8 million unprocessed original and amended individual returns, approximately 1.5 million unprocessed original and amended business returns and almost 5 million unprocessed letters and documents in response to notices.
The IRS said that it expects to return reassigned employees to their current positions at the end of September.