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IRS budget cuts: 12,000 staff reduction + 83% cut in training funds =
Posted: Jan 14, 2015
They will be able to answer about 4 out of every 10 phone calls until April 15. After that those who filed for extensions will not have access to phone assistance. Callers can anticipate at least a 30-minute hold. When you get someone on the line, don't expect them to know anything about anything beyond "basic" tax law, because that's the only kind of training the agency can afford to give them anymore. It will take months to receive written replies. On-site tax return preparation assistance has been completely eliminated, leaving around 500,000 who use the service every year in the lurch. No word on how much delay taxpayers can expect to have before getting their refunds.
Like anybody, I'm not that crazy about paying taxes, but in the 50 years I've been doing it anyway, I've always been impressed with the polite, and knowledgeable agency staff and the procedures they have in place for promptly escalating inquiries that require specialized expertise. Thanks, GOP, for the "do less with less" mindset and for being true to form as you strive for the dumbing down of the dumbest "little guys" who pay and collect your salaries.
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Backwards - sm
[ In Reply To ..]It's the crats who want to dumb down America to get the votes and keep people in the dark like mushrooms. Keep government big and give more handouts to the people so they'll like you and want more and more, and around and around and around it goes.
Stop blaming everything on the GOP. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]To the OP, YOUR party has been in office for the last 6 years.
Exactly THANK YOU and 100 likes. Tired of people putting - blame where it does not belong
[ In Reply To ..]That's what is so irritating. The democrats have been in office for the last 6 years. They won't pass anything the republicans have to offer. They block and obstruct and then when it fails they blame the republicans.
Unbelievable.
IRS budget problems result of lying, cheating Republicans - see message
[ In Reply To ..]Don't you remember the debt-ceiling crisis the Republicans orchestrated?
How about when Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit rating of the United States government for the first time in the country's history.
The Republicans get all the credit and should take all the consequences of the resulting budget "sequester." Somehow I know they do not have the integrity to do it.
Every tax evader I have known has been a Republican - nm
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Oh, please. GOP-controlled House IRS funding conniptions - have been abundant
[ In Reply To ..]after their scandal fury morphed into the punishment phase. For example, last summer, a $1.2 B-B-B-billion cut to the enforcement division was proposed, 25% of that department's total budget, designed to seriously impede the audits process, despite the fact that there is a $4 collection return for every $1 spent on audits. Never mind how many tax cheats would make out like bandits with billions in tax revenues that go undetected. Those cuts amounted to only 79% of what was requested. GOP lawmakers such as Ander Crenshaw, Paul Gosar and Bill Huizenga, just to name a few, openly admit these cuts are intended to "punish" the agency. Naturally, such cuts do nothing to correct "scandal" allegations of political targeting.
I could come up with more examples, but instead I yield the floor to the Senator from Texas. Wasn't it just 48 hours ago that the TP's Cruz missile called for abolishing the IRS all together? I believe his exact words were, "And I’ll tell you, the single most important tax reform, we should abolish the IRS.”
http://www.bnncpa.com/resources/library/irs_audit_statistics_what_are_the_odds
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