New infusion by Congress of $80 billion for the IRS will allow it to add thousands more auditors and customer service representatives.
Well, they’ve been trying. But there just aren’t enough of them. For years, Congress has been cutting back and underfunding the IRS.
It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in warehouses.And a lot of taxpayers, and not just those who file with paper forms instead of electronically, have to wait while their returns are hand-typed into the IRS system — with all the wasted time and opportunities for typing mistakes that entails.
Tax returns should get processed faster, too, meaning more people can expect to get refunds sooner. And, once new investigative technologies and asset-monitoring systems are in place, the IRS should be better able to identify the gaps and sharpen their audits.Experts say the tax gap — the difference between taxes owed to the government and what’s actually collected — is at least aroundJust how much can be found will depend on the IRS’ ability to hire many more skilled people.
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