IRS backlog: 24 million taxpayers waiting for returns from last year

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IRS backlog: 24 million taxpayers waiting for returns from last year
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The backlog will only add to the slow service and delays already anticipated for the 2022 tax filing season.

The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C. on June 26, 2021. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesWashington Post reports.The Internal Revenue Service backlog will only add to the slow service and delays already anticipated for theThe millions of taxpayers who are still waiting for tax returns is much higher than what was previously reported by the agency, according to the Post.

"This situation is untenable," a group of 30 Senate Republicans wrote in a Thursday letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig. Slow service and missed calls have threatened "our constituents’ ability to have their returns processed accurately and efficiently," the lawmakers wrote.

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