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IRS under COVID: Heroes or Goats?

Agents resort to filing by forklift.

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Let us pause for a moment of kudos.

Last year, the IRS accepted a mission impossible. It wasn’t just underfunded, understaffed, and underequipped but overloaded, overworked, and overdue.

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And then Covid came back with a vengeance.