The IRS Misplaced Millions of Taxpayer Records. Again.
The only effective means of keeping tax collectors from misusing data is keeping it from them.
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The only effective means of keeping tax collectors from misusing data is keeping it from them.
The agency said underfunding forced it to redirect employees responsible for inventories to other jobs.
The photographic records were located on thousands of microfilm cartridges housed across facilities in Austin, Texas, Kansas City, Missouri and Ogden, Utah.
The service decided to destroy the documents in March 2021 because of its inability to process its backlog of paper tax returns, according to a new report.
The IRS is still paying pandemic benefits to dead people, the agency's inspector general has revealed in a new report that identified tens of thousands of erroneous payments.