Broken system. Broken trust. Broken tax season.
By CPA Trendlines
The government shutdown of 2018-19 was a traumatic experience that CPAs and tax preparers will remember, with a shudder, for years to come.
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It was the longest shutdown in history, and it hit precisely at crunch time for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and just as tax season was getting underway.
Look at some of the stats from the Taxpayer Advocate Service for service just before and just after (not during) the shutdown:
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