Congress has increased the IRS budget by more than $2 billion in the past year, yet the federal tax agency still has a backlog of more than 24 million unprocessed taxpayer returns and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) wants to know why.
Johnson told IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig in an August 1 letter that he continues “to receive hundreds of complaints from Wisconsinites waiting for their 2021 returns and now are still waiting on their 2022 returns. My constituents’ frustration is confirmed by watchdog and press reports that the IRS continues to struggle in processing returns in a timely and efficient manner.”
The Wisconsin senator wrote that one year ago the IRS backlog totaled nearly 16 million unprocessed tax returns from the 2020-2021 tax season….