“Taxpayers face overloaded IRS as filing season opens Monday”
January 25, 2022
“An IRS worker shortage, an enormous workload from administering pandemic-related programs and stalled legislation that would have given the agency billions of dollars for more expeditiously processing returns will combine to cause taxpayers pain this filing season…
Agency officials are already warning filers that “in many areas, we are unable to deliver the amount of service and enforcement that our taxpayers and tax system deserves and needs,” as IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig put it earlier in the month…”
https://apnews.com/article/when-will-taxes-be-accepted-irs-9d29b1e4b5d12acbb68e43772a009f1e
Listen it’s not the pandemic that is contributing to the worker shortage. It’s the restrictions around it. There are large amounts of people quitting jobs because they don’t want to wear mask or be coerced into taking a vaccine. Regardless of your opinion on those two things, the reality of the situation, is large amounts of people are quitting jobs because of it. It’s just a fact and large news organizations rarely if ever say it.