One photo of an IRS cafeteria overstuffed with paper shows why you haven't gotten your refund check

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One photo of an IRS cafeteria overstuffed with paper shows why you haven't gotten your refund check yet — and just how underfunded the agency is
insider@insider.com (Juliana Kaplan) - Tuesday




    The IRS is underfunded and understaffed, and had to deal with new pandemic responsibilities.
    The result has been a massive backlog of unprocessed tax returns, many of them on paper.
    A photo from the agency's Austin facility shows just how much paper the IRS is dealing with.

The IRS is still full of paper.

The agency has been contending with a historic backlog of unprocessed tax returns amidst new pandemic responsibilities, understaffing, and underfunding. The result: A massive build-up of unprocessed tax returns, many of which belong to Americans who have been waiting on refund checks.

Natasha Sarin, a tax policy and implementation counselor at the Treasury Department, shared a photo on Twitter of the cafeteria at the IRS's Austin site. In it, the room is "overrun" with paper returns awaiting employees.

"There's no question that strategically starving the IRS of resources shortchanges American taxpayers," Sarin said in a comment to Insider. "Dedicated IRS employees working through the enormous paper backlog are doing so with near-obsolete technology, and 1970s level staffing. It's time to deliver the sustainable resources for a modernized IRS every American can depend on."

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[Bigun]

If they think they are underfunded now, wait!

[libertybele]

We mailed in our tax return in March -- still waiting.  I know most do their returns on-line; I refuse to do any on-line banking transactions.  So I wait ....

[The_Reader_David]

Waiting for your refund.... Something I never have to worry about:  my wife has a business as a sole proprietorship (she's a clinical psychologist), so any overpayment just gets applied to estimated taxes for the next year (and we move money that would have been an estimated tax payment but which was already covered by the previous year's overpayment out of her business account to our household account when estimated taxes would be due).  Back when both of us were on salaries, I always contrived to owe the Feds something in April, too little to incur a penalty, but something -- why give the Feds an interest free loan?  I"m still working on calibrating estimated tax payments for my wife to accomplish the same thing now.