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WASHINGTON -(77WABC)- The IRS is swamped with a backlog of millions of tax returns .
New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer is announcing a ‘Taxpayer Action Plan’ to help cut the bureaucratic red tape and get New Jerseyans more than $1.2 million dollars in refunds they’ve yet to receive.
His plan would: –Demand that the IRS fix their antiquated bureaucracy and create an immediate plan to efficiently and effectively process the backlog of millions of tax returns mailed to them
–Request that the IRS boost resources at the Taxpayer Advocate Service – an office within the agency devoted to taxpayers’ interests, including hiring and training new taxpayer advocates
–Upgrade the antiquated, out of date IRS tax processing technology that was created in the 1960s
–Request that the IRS to report to Congress in the next 30 days with their plan to address the backlog
–Help the Fifth District to claw back their tax refunds by working one-one one with residents and families to track down their tax returns and expedite the process of receiving their refunds
Nearly 24 million American taxpayers are still waiting for the IRS to process their tax returns from last year, with many refunds being held up for nearly 11 months.
