Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy.
It’s no secret governments have had difficulties responding to the coronavirus outbreak. But just how bad have things gotten at some federal agencies?
Consider what’s happening at the IRS:
The IRS is piling unopened business tax refund requests into storage trailers and advising companies to file by fax instead. It’s stopped answering phone calls on taxpayer assistance lines. And it’s not processing millions of paper tax returns filed by individual Americans.
The coronavirus pandemic has nearly crippled the tax collection agency, which relies on antiquated technology and still does a lot of business on paper, just as it is most needed to help pump money into the ailing economy.
Perhaps it’s a good thing, then, that the due date to file federal taxes has been pushed back to July 15.
But that’s small consolation to those who have filed and could really use their tax refunds:
…millions of individual taxpayers and businesses could face lengthy delays before they receive refunds they desperately need as the coronavirus halts their incomes. Taxpayers disputing how much they owe or waiting to see if they qualify for tax credits also could have to wait indefinitely.
Despite the delays, the IRS still “urges taxpayers who are owed a refund to file as quickly as possible.”
Just don’t plan on spending it any time soon.
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IRS – Well at least they will be paying us the interest and penalties for failure to refund our money by the cut-off date.
Virginia Democrat – The sheriff’s can promote the election of another republican in Virginia’s state Senate.
They are not ‘struggling’. They are 100% Obama people who are delaying ON PURPOSE to damage President Trump. I certainly wish President Trump just fired every last one of them. Never forget how absolutely corrupt they were under Obama. They were not even punished for their crimes.
About 6 months after Trump took office I happened to be visiting the irs office in El Monte, California when i noticed a picture of the previous president on their wall. I mentioned that there had been an election as i pointed at the outdated picture on the wall with my eyes and they responded “We like him”. Yeah, those people hate America and all that’s Right.
I’m on social security and I’d just like to get my stimulus money.
EVERYBODY I know who receives Social Security has NOT received a penny of their supposed stimulus payment! Those of us who receive it are being pushed to the back of the bus by this most bureaucratic and partisan organization. Hey treasury…get on the ball and treat everyone equally!
I’m on RRB which comes from the US Treasury. I got that, plus my tax refund, and my stimulus check.
Me too. I’ll believe it when I have cash in my hand. Nothing in my direct deposit yet as of 8pm 4-21-2020
I filed my tax returns electronically a week ago.
I have already received my California refund.
The IRS site to track my Carona rebate still says they have no idea who I am.
By the way I am also on Social Security and working full time, except during the shutdown.