The Internal Revenue Service is having a tough time processing tax returns this year, potentially delaying refunds for many Americans. Among the many challenges the agency faces: Out-of-order printers and copiers.
“IRS employees stated that the only reason they could not use many of these devices is because they are out of ink or because the waste cartridge container is full,” the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration wrote about the copiers and printers in a report released on Friday. “The contract for supplies and service of the printers ended in September 2020.”
Sixty-nine out of the 164 devices — or 42%— used by the submission processing functions were not usable as of March 30, 2021, the watchdog found.
The report also noted that a substantial backlog from last year, a late start to the filing season, and too few staffers are contributing to the agency’s slow pace.
As of March 5, 2021, the agency issued 36 million tax refunds down, 32% from the same time last year when 52.7 million refunds were processed.
They should quit stock piling ammunition and start stock piling ink cartridges.
“The contract for supplies and service of the printers ended in September 2020.”
That’s all you need to know. The lazy shiftless morons that work for the government are too stupid or lazy to change the printer cartridges.
Always excuses, yet the public is damned if 1 second late past the deadline.
Everyone in the workplace has supply problems, cry me a river.
Meanwhile, they collect interest on money that is not theirs. ALL Americans should stop paying taxes….
Well , Interest to Us should accumulate every day on our returns , just like if we owed them the $$$$ !!!!!!!!
If you owed them $$$$ they would be all over You & charge interest every day , same goes for them !!!!!!
Guess they are using that INK to print that worthless Money Democrats are Blowing & Waisting & Stealing !!!!!!
Maybe this is because we no longer have an IRS.
That is the cheesiest , stupidest, flimsiest excuse I have ever heard in my life. Do they actually think we believe that?
We WANT our damn $$$$$ !!!!! SO NO excuses , just like if we owed them > No Excuses !!!!! Pay Up