“Shortcuts’ have become the norm.”
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National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson has slammed Congress hard in the Taxpayer Advocate Service Annual Report 2017. After a series of IRS budget cuts over the last several years, Olson says she sees the daily consequences of reduced funding and the choices made by the agency in the face of funding constraints.
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“Funding cuts have rendered the IRS unable to provide acceptable levels of taxpayer service, unable to upgrade its technology…and unable to maintain compliance programs that both promote and protect taxpayer rights,” Olson said in her preface to the annual report. “‘Shortcuts’ have become the norm, and ‘shortcuts’ are incompatible with high-quality tax administration.”
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