IRS shutdown plan fails to quell worries
The IRS’s new contingency plan to deal with the shutdown has failed to quell concerns from Democratic lawmakers and tax professionals about the upcoming tax-filing season.
The Treasury Department’s updated shutdown plan for the IRS released Tuesday provides for 46,000 employees, or 57.4 percent of the agency’s workforce, to be working during the tax-filing season. It also confirms that the IRS will issue refunds during the shutdown.
But the plan didn’t answer all of the questions that lawmakers and tax experts have, and there are lingering doubts about how effective the IRS will be at doing its job while its employees are working without pay due to the funding lapse.
“I have concern about the IRS carrying out its mission. I want them to do that, and they can’t do it under a shutdown condition at the level that it needs to be done,” said Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee.
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