The IRS expects to receive 168 million returns this year, about 4 million more than last year.
Tax filing season this year will begin on January 23, the government announced on Thursday.
That's the date the Internal Revenue Service will begin accepting tax returns for the 2022 year. The IRSThis year's filing deadline is April 18, extending the typical deadline by three days. That's because April 15 falls on a Saturday, while Monday, April 17, is Emancipation Day in the District of Columbia.
To help beleaguered taxpayers, from whom only 1 of 10 calls were able to reach a telephone agent last year, the agency has hired more than 5,000 new phone operators as well as in-person help staff, it said.
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