With less than two weeks before the start of the 2022 tax filing season and more than 16 million outstanding tax returns at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3)—Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG)—alongside top Republicans at the Ways and Means Committee and Appropriations Committee—called on IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig to provide information on how the agency will address this crisis for hardworking taxpayers.
Within his first year in office, President Biden has overseen $6 trillion in total spending with more than $1 billion earmarked specifically by the Democrats for COVID response by the IRS, but the agency has not spent a dime on the backlog.
In part, the members wrote, “The ongoing IRS return processing backlog and related customer service failures have reached crisis levels as the new filing season approaches – we write to ask for an explanation of what significant actions the IRS will take in the coming weeks to mitigate this crisis. Urgent action is needed, and it is needed now.”
Read the full letter here.
