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pros handle 45% of income tax returns

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data tablerefunds down by double digits.

by beth bellor
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tax season 2023 has been consistent. refunds are down, and so are self-prepared filings andirs.govvisits. by every other marker, though, business is as usual or better.

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as of feb. 24, the latest data available, the irs had received 46 million individual income tax returns, up 1.3 percent from the same period in 2022. it had processed 45.7 million returns, up 4.3 percent.

we always like to see processing go quickly, and the agency is speeding through returns right now at a clip of 99.4 percent.

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at the irs, short on staff means short on service

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guess who suffers?

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it probably won’t surprise the average tax practitioner to learn that in the american customer satisfaction index of federal agencies, the internal revenue service ranks dead last.

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it accomplished the same dubious rank in forrest research’s u.s. customer experience index of 221 companies and federal agencies.

two sad things about this:
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tax season opens with refunds up 85%

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data tablenearly two-thirds of returns have been self-prepared.

by beth bellor

the latest tax season is off to a roar, with refunds up 85 percent and processing up 29 percent above last year at this time.

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as of feb. 3, the end of the first week of collections, the irs had received 19 million individual income tax returns, up 13.5 percent from the same week in 2022. it had processed 16.8 million returns, up 29.1 percent.
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why the irs is still doing data entry by hand

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here’s something you’d better explain to your tax clients, lest you get blamed:

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should the irs create a free file app of its own?

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three ways to fix the program.

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here’s something weird: the irs offers the vast majority of taxpayers the option to use the free file program to prepare returns.

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it costs taxpayers nothing. yet only three percent use it. can it be fixed? should it? congress is weighing in.

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accountants agree: the top five ways to fix the irs

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the united states of frustration:schaffer, zulager, toye, devine. (word cloud: 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 research)

some suggestions: burn it down and start over.abolish the income tax altogether. privatize it.

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if the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer were a thermometer, it would be popping its mercury with responses to “how would you fix the irs?”

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we’re getting alotof comments, many of them scorchingly hot. accountants and tax preparers arenothappy with the government agency that their profession depends on more than any other.

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the top five most common recommendations:
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irs tops list of busy season problems

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forget covid. the underfunded, understaffed, underequipped, underappreciated, misunderstood irs is the top problem.

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it probably won’t surprise you that the 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间 busy season barometer identifies irs operations as the biggest problem tax practitioners face today. in fact, we’ve never seen such widespread agreement among respondents—an astonishing 80 percent of them.

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that consensus indicates that there really is a problem at the irs. it’s underfunded, understaffed, underequipped, and, at this point, underappreciated and misunderstood.

the real problem is that the problem is creating problems. irs staff can’t keep up with correspondence, yet the computers, even though working off an operating system that dates back to the kennedy administration, keep churning out moot notices and undeserved penalties.

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tax pros preparing 46 percent of e-filings

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the crunch hasn’t hit irs.gov yet.

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five weeks into tax filing season, refunds are well past the $100 billion mark and processing is clipping along merrily. year-to-year comparisons remain challenging because of the difference in season dates: feb. 12 to may 17, 2021, vs. jan. 24 to april 18, 2022.

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as of march 4, the latest data available, the agency had received 54.7 million individual income tax returns, down 1.7 percent from the same week in 2021. it had processed 53.1 million returns, up 8.3 percent. we always look at how quickly the returns coming in are processed, and right now that rate is 96.9 percent.
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