The IRS said Tuesday that it has almost finished processing roughly 8 million unprocessed tax returns from 2022, but it still has millions of paper returns from 2022 that need to be processed.
as normal that need to be processed, a Treasury Department official told reporters during a call on Tuesday, the result of directing employees' attention to the more-pressing backlog of 2021 returns. Those error-free, paper returns will likely be processed by the end of this year, the person said. That is in part because the IRS planned a massiveduring the tax season in order to wade through unprocessed returns from previous years.
"Business returns filed in 2021 will be completed shortly thereafter, and the IRS will continue to work quickly to resolve the few remaining 2021 individual returns that have errors," IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a statement. The agency kicked off the tax-filing season with roughly 8 million unprocessed returns from 2021; by comparison, the IRS usually enters the tax-filing season with fewer than 1 million remaining items to address.
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Charles Rettig testifies before the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee on March 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. The heap of unprocessed returns stemmed from pandemic-related disruptions, including a worker shortage, the Herculean task of administering millions of stimulus checks and adapting to other tax changes in the different
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