Treasury IG Sees Progress at IRS

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Comparison of individual return inventory carried over to the next filing season

Backlogs cleared, fraud detected.

By CPA Trendlines Research

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has issued a report on the 2023 filing season, and it is generally complimentary to the IRS.

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One big accomplishment: by Feb. 2, 2023, the IRS had cleared the entire carryover inventory of unprocessed individual tax returns received in 2022 – a backlog of 447,000 paper returns and 445,000 amended returns.