{"id":107913,"date":"2023-01-30t12:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-30t17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=107913"},"modified":"2024-08-07t23:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08t03:09:51","slug":"news-on-irs-is-maybe-sort-of-a-little-bit-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2023\/01\/30\/news-on-irs-is-maybe-sort-of-a-little-bit-good\/","title":{"rendered":"news on irs is maybe sort of a little bit good"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>but. there\u2019s always a but.<\/strong><\/p>\n by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research<\/em><\/p>\n every year, national taxpayer advocate erin m. collins submits to congress a report on the 10 most serious problems taxpayers face in dealing with the internal revenue service.<\/p>\n more: <\/b>why we all hate the tax code<\/a> | how bullish are you this tax season?<\/a> | accountants\u2019 top problems for tax season 2023<\/a> | tax season 2023: better or worse?<\/a> this year, reporting on the frustrations of 2022, the nta had no shortage of bad news, but collins did note a glimmer of hope. \u201cwe have begun to see light at the end of the tunnel,\u201d she wrote. \u201ci am just not sure how much further we need to travel before we see sunlight.\u201d but \u2026 here comes a new filing season, and if last year is any indication, there will be problems.<\/p>\n in a nutshell, here are the 10 most serious problems of 2022.<\/p>\n 1. processing delays<\/strong><\/p>\n for the third year in a row \u2013 and we can blame covid-19 for a lot of this \u2013 the irs failed to pay timely refunds to millions of taxpayers, especially for paper-filed returns.<\/p>\n 2. complexity of the tax code<\/strong><\/p>\n no improvement here. tax laws are still overly complex and burdensome, discouraging voluntary compliance.<\/p>\n 3. hiring and recruitment<\/strong><\/p>\n weaknesses in the human capital office\u2019s hiring, recruitment and training programs are hampering efforts to provide staffing adequate to taxpayer needs.<\/p>\n 4. poor telephone and in-person service<\/strong><\/p>\n hello? anybody home? not for 87 percent of taxpayers who called the irs last year. and it wasn\u2019t much better for tax professionals, who got through to a practitioners priority service line only 16 percent of the time, and only with an average on-hold time of 25 minutes. contacts at taxpayer assistance centers plummeted from 2.3 million in 2019 to 1.3 million in 2022. correspondence cycle time increased from 74 days to 207 days.<\/p>\n 5. poor online access for taxpayers and practitioners<\/strong><\/p>\n inadequate digital services impeded case resolution, forcing millions to resort to phone calls and correspondence that weren\u2019t answered.<\/p>\n 6. inefficient e-file and free file<\/strong><\/p>\n barriers to e-filing and the absence of free, easy-to-use free file software caused millions to file hard-to-process paper returns, resulting in delays where there were supposed to be efficiencies.<\/p>\n 7. lack of transparency<\/strong><\/p>\n lack of transparency about processing delays and other key data frustrated taxpayers and probably discouraged voluntary compliance.<\/p>\n 8. lack of practitioner oversight<\/strong><\/p>\n an absence of minimum competency standards for practitioners left taxpayers, especially those of low income, vulnerable to errors by those who prepare returns, resulting in overpayment of taxes or legal liability for underpayment.<\/p>\n 9. appeals delays<\/strong><\/p>\n staffing challenges and institutional culture are preventing timely, high-quality service within the irs independent office of appeals.<\/p>\n 10. barriers for overseas taxpayers<\/strong><\/p>\n taxpayers overseas \u2013 u.s. citizens, resident aliens living abroad, foreign people with tax obligations \u2013 face highly complicated rules and extra difficulties in trying to communicate with the irs.<\/p>\n but all the news is not bad. <\/strong><\/p>\n in its ongoing effort to improve one of the main causes of tax practitioner frustration and stress, cpatrendlines will be exploring these top 10 problems for analysis by the professionals who make american taxation work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" but. there\u2019s always a but.<\/strong><\/p>\n by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3120,3002,2246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-member-exclusive","category-special","category-busy-season"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nthat distant glimmer in the place where the sun never seems to shine is the fact that the irs has made considerable progress in reducing its volume of unprocessed returns and correspondence from last year\u2019s filing season.<\/p>\nthe 10 most serious problems<\/h3>\n
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