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busy season 2026: irs problems, staffing issues and client wrangling emerge as top pressures

irs dysfunction replaces obbba as top concern.

on the front lines (clockwise from top left): woodard, dienhart, volk, stitely, tejero, brady, svihla.

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with only a week to go before the opening of filing season 2026, tax practitioners are focusing on irs dysfunction as their biggest potential problem this year

and no wonder. the agency was already chronically underfunded, buried under a mountain of overdue paperwork, and crippled by ancient computer systems when it lost 25% of its workforce in early 2025.

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more tax, pricing, and the 2026 outlook

today 63% of tax professionals say a beleaguered irs poses the single biggest risk to this year’s tax season, up from 54% just a couple of months ago, according to the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer.