Treasury releases filing-season shutdown plan for IRS
By Naomi Jagoda - 01/15/19 03:33 PM EST
The Treasury Department on Tuesday released a shutdown contingency plan for the IRS during the tax-filing season, less than two weeks before the IRS will start processing tax returns.
The plan has been eagerly awaited by lawmakers and tax professionals, who have expressed concerns that the funding lapse to the IRS could complicate the upcoming filing season — the first that reflects many of the changes made to the code by President Trump's tax law.
Under the filing season plan, significantly more IRS employees will be working than have been during the first few weeks of the shutdown. While only 12.5 percent of the agency's roughly 80,000 employees were working under the non-filing season plan, 57.4 percent of the agency's workforce will be working under the filing-season plan.
Among those who will be called back to work are IRS employees involved in the payment of refunds. The IRS announced earlier this month that it will pay refunds during the shutdown, though in the past the agency had been directed not to pay refunds during a funding lapse.
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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/425473-treasury-releases-filing-season-shutdown-plan-for-irs
