Taxpayers calling the IRS to assist tax help this application season can be more difficult than usual, to make anyone by phone, say experts, which is expected only next year, will deteriorate with the help of personnel cuts that can significantly reduce the working force.
This year’s tax return processing time shows the figures according to last year’s data. IRS staff involved in2025 tax seasonIt was not allowed to accept the proposal for ransom from the Trump administration until after the taxpayer’s term of taxpayers on April 15, although thousands of test workers were fired earlier this year.
Legal tax experts say long expectations will increase as more redemptions and layoffs come into force.
Eric Santos, Executive Director of the Georgian Tax Clinic, which provides free taxpayers with low income taxpayers, says that waiting time IRS telephone is noticeably longer than usual, and IRS staff is overflowing.
IRS staff “mostly tell us that they do not have time to look at certain cases,” Santos said. “Work is spreading to fewer and fewer people.”
Labor Reduction – which can become almost half of the IRS workforce – is part ofThe Trump Administration’s effortsTo cut the sizeFederal laborThrough the billionaireElon MuskThe Department of Government Effectiveness by closing agencies, postponing virtually all test workers who have not yet acquired the protection of the civil service and offering ransom to virtually all federal staff through a “reserved program”.
Earlier this month IRS started dismissalcan end up cutAs many as 20,000 employees are up to 25% of the total labor. Approximately 7,000 IRS test workers, who have been fired since the beginning of February, were recently ordered to resume the federal judge, though it was unclear whether these workers were returning to work.
Comparing figures during the first week of April from 2024 to 2025, this year 101.4 million revenues were processed compared to 101.8 million tax returns last year. The return is returned, with 67.7 million issued this year compared to 66.7 million in 2024.
But Santos and others are worried that the 2026 submission season could adversely affect the loss of thousands of additional tax collection workers, which are expected to leave the agency through the planned dismissal and redemption.
“I don’t see them going to keep up with the next year’s tax season,” Santos said. “I think it’s an honest question now.”
The Treasury Press, who had no right to speak publicly and acted with the Associated -Press, said in a statement that the reduction of the IRS personnel security was part of other improvements that the agency accepts to be more effective and improve services.
Sakina Tilman, Director of the University of the District of the Colombian Tax Clinic, did not notice the delay in processing money this year, but saw delays in reaching the IRS by phone.
She is worried that delays by phone can hurt customers who are attempted to resolve their debts.
“What happens when customers try to become compatible?” she asked. “Or when people who want and can pay but they just can’t force someone over the phone?
Former IRS commissioner John Koskanen said the AP that even in the usual year, IRS’s responsiveness slows down the further tax season.
“Next year, when they reduced 10,000 or 20,000 employees, they headed back to really poor taxpayers by phone,” he said. “And the priority of the taxpayer will become aximaron.”
Originally this story was presented on Fortune.com
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Fatima Hussein, The Associated Press
