Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig testifies before the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee on March 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee held a hearing on the 2022 tax filing season. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) IRS Commissioner calls IT modernization ‘virtually impossible’ with start-stop funding Lawmakers disagree over whether the agency should receive extra funding to tackle its backlog of more than five million paper tax returns. Apr 21, 2022 By John Hewitt Jones
A view of the IRS building in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) IRS managers’ association calls on lawmakers to provide multi-year funding for tech modernization The PMA says extra staff are also needed to make up for a coronavirus-related surge in amended tax returns. Jan 31, 2022 By John Hewitt Jones
(Getty Images) Lawmakers look to extend federal telework as coronavirus cases rise The proposed Senate bill would require telework where possible while granting agency heads the flexibility to sanction in-person work when necessary. Aug 12, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir