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By the Numvers:
Less than 50 percent: The chance you will get a live representative if you call the IRS this tax season.
$10.9 billion: The IRS budget this year.
$1 billion: How much has been cut from the IRS budget since its high-water mark in 2010.
13,000: The number of jobs the IRS has cut.
"You talk about waterboarding, this is waterboarding at its worst," Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) said to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen during a hearing about reports of the agency abusing innocent small business and seizing their assets.
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BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)B2G
(9,766 posts)If so, good.
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)on the phone.
This Friday, it will be exactly 21 days since filing our taxes and still zilch. Everyone else I know has gotten theirs even though they filed a week to two weeks later than we have. Sucks.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Wouldn't they just Love Love LOVE to privatize the United States IRS.