• IRS Tax Refunds Could Be Delayed
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Government shutdown Taxpayers who file early in the tax season might not receive their refunds in a timely manner because of the partial government shutdown that began on December 22, according to the Wall Street Journal. If the shutdown continues, that could mean a delay in "billions of dollars in income-tax refunds," the Journal's Richard Rubin reported. During the shutdown, the IRS has lost funding and is operating with around 12% of its employees, according to Rubin. While it can process tax returns, keep systems running, and conduct criminal investigations, it can't run audits, answer off-season taxpayer questions, or allocate refunds, he reported.
IRS has lost funding and is operating with around 12% of its employees God have mercy on those poor bastards.
If true then this is genuinely hilarious, in a pretty grim way. You tried to create the illusion of lowering the tax burden on the common man and then you fucking blew it. Nice work.
Nah, Trumptards will blame the Dems for not pass his stupid wall funding bill.
Remember, the MAGA crowd are the 5+ decades result of the post-Nixon Republican strategy Lyndon B Johnson described: https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/205174/ac77125b-77a3-4e27-bc3e-2e85f040e276/image.png
so those big massive tax returns we were all promised might not even arrive. great.
Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification. Now that they can't even get that maybe people will start caring.
I feel so bad for the IRS, everyone hates them so much and considers them a pain to work with when they have virtually zero funding
During the shutdown, the IRS has lost funding and is operating with around 12% of its employees, according to Rubin. I want to give these people hugs because holy fuck.
The funny thing is most of their reputation is undeserved, and was actually the result of a smear campaign. In the 1980s the IRS started an investigation into the cult of Scientology, the IRS actually does a lot of anti-cult work simply because as the tax authority they're uniquely well equipped to shut cults down by attacking their funding, but because Scientology is significantly larger and more influential than most other murdercults they used their various connections to start slandering the IRS. Thanks to their celebrity connections, and the conservative appeal of tax protestation, public opinion turned against the IRS for no good reason, and eventually managed to blackmail the Commissioner of the IRS into settling their investigation.
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