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One photo of an IRS cafeteria overstuffed with paper shows why you haven't gotten your refund check yet — and just how underfunded the agency is
Many Americans have been waiting for their tax refund checks for months. They may be buried in a pi…
Juliana Kaplan
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The IRS will move away using ID.me's facial recognition verification for IRS.gov
The IRS said it would stop using the third-party facial recognition service ID.me after Insider and…
Caroline Haskins
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One chart shows how IRS audits have collapsed over the past decade, as wealthy Americans increasingly hide billions from the taxman
The IRS shed over 30,000 full-time positions as Republicans cut its budget by a fifth over the last…
Eliza Relman,Andy Kiersz,Jose…
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Sen. Rick Scott proposed cutting the IRS budget by half. The agency's commissioner said 'you might be better off and save more money by just shutting it down completely'
"We got to make this system where we don't need a big IRS," Florida Republican Rick Scott told Insi…
Juliana Kaplan,Joseph Zeballo…
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The wealthy are rarely caught by the IRS for not paying their taxes
From 2014 to 2016, 879,415 high-income nonfilers owed a collective $45.7 billion but the IRS either…
Hillary Hoffower
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The IRS chief says the agency will get through its backlog of unprocessed tax returns 'before December'
Millions of Americans were waiting on tax refunds for months in 2021. The IRS is aiming to get them…
Juliana Kaplan
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The IRS needs help. Its chief says millions are waiting on tax returns and can't get through via phone: 'This is frustrating for taxpayers and for us.'
Millions of Americans are still waiting on their refunds, and many can't reach the IRS on the phone…
Juliana Kaplan
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Millions of lost US jobs will go unreplenished for years, according to IRS forecast
A recent IRS report estimates that W-2 tax filings will be below pre-pandemic levels through at lea…
Carmen Reinicke
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Nearly 7 million tax returns haven't been processed by the IRS because of stimulus changes
Lawmakers requested the IRS extend the tax filing deadline and remove the requirement to file amend…
Ayelet Sheffey
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The IRS announced an 'all hands on deck' approach to get millions of delayed taxpayer refunds to Americans by year's end
Millions of Americans have been waiting on their tax refunds for months. The IRS is determined to f…
Juliana Kaplan,Joseph Zeballo…
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Americans could do taxes for free in just minutes — like other countries — but the IRS has been 'starved' of resources, the Treasury says
The IRS is severely underfunded. Workers open paper returns by hand, causing year-long delays. Mean…
Joseph Zeballos-Roig,Juliana …
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The IRS is helping sanction Russian oligarchs, but says it needs 1,300 more workers to fight 'complicated tax fraud and money laundering schemes'
Wealthy Russians are skilled at hiding their money. The underfunded, understaffed IRS says it's goi…
Juliana Kaplan
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Millions of Americans may finally get their tax refund checks as the IRS clears out a backlog of 8 million 2021 returns
The IRS has been drowning in paper, and taking months to process tax returns — which held up refund…
Juliana Kaplan
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A New Jersey woman has been in a 7-year deadlock with the IRS to prove she's alive
Samantha Dreissig, 25, told CBS New York that an IRS agent she once spoke to informed her that she …
Cheryl Teh
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The top IRS watchdog looking out for taxpayers says the agency is 'in crisis' and buried in paper — and that she's worried about long refund delays for 2022
Senate Democrats are eyeing ways to beef up the IRS before the April tax-filing deadline or extend …
Juliana Kaplan,Joseph Zeballo…
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The IRS will not force you to pay your taxes online by sending off a selfie for facial recognition
The IRS will ask taxpayers to complete "virtual interviews" with agents if they don't want to submi…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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American expats are afraid they won't get their stimulus checks because the IRS won't accept foreign addresses or non-US bank accounts
A tool on the IRS website that is meant to collect direct-deposit information to speed up stimulus …
Tanza Loudenback
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A bipartisan Senate group wants to fund an IRS crackdown on 'tax cheats' in nascent infrastructure proposal
Sen. Angus King told Insider "there's a lot of money we're leaving on the table." The IRS told Cong…
Juliana Kaplan,Joseph Zeballo…
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Elizabeth Warren wants to triple the annual IRS budget to go after 'wealthy tax cheats'
The bill introduced by Sen. Elizabeth Warren would help close the tax gap by boosting the annual IR…
Ayelet Sheffey
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We asked readers about their IRS delays and got so many responses we couldn't read them all
Taxpayers emailed Insider about how they are still waiting on necessary funds owed by the IRS — som…