IRS offers reprieve for taxpayer checks caught in backlog of unopened mail

AccountingToday posted the article below on problems the IRS is having processing taxpayer payments. At the beginning of COVID-19, the IRS furloughed tens of thousands of employees. I had read articles about how the IRS couldn’t handle the volume of mail they received. As a result, they had leased warehouses to store unopened mail.

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