{"id":1716663,"date":"2022-10-30T06:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1716663"},"modified":"2022-10-30T07:20:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T11:20:35","slug":"irs-ramps-up-hiring-ahead-of-tax-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irs-ramps-up-hiring-ahead-of-tax-season\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS Ramps Up Hiring Ahead of Tax Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firs-ramps-up-hiring-ahead-of-tax-season%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1716663&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"featured featured-video video-ct\">\n<div class=\"contain\">\n<div class=\"info\">\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc breaks down how the IRS has strayed from its role on &#8216;Kudlow.&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/irs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The IRS<\/a> has added thousands of new customer service representatives amid its preparations for the 2023 tax season, it announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/government-and-institutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The agency<\/a> said it intends for the 4,000 new employees to &#8220;help answer phones and provide other services&#8221; to taxpayers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were hired over several months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/newsroom\/irs-quickly-moves-forward-with-taxpayer-service-improvements-4000-hired-to-provide-more-help-to-people-during-2023-tax-season-on-phones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to<\/a> the IRS.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/931\/523\/IRS-SMALL-BUSINESS-TAX-GETTY.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Magnifying glass on IRS website\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>In this photo illustration, the homepage of the IRS website is seen on a computer screen through a magnifying glass.<\/span><span> (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/personal-finance\/irs-inflation-adjustments-2023-tax-brackets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IRS RELEASES INFLATION ADJUSTMENTS FOR 2023 \u2013 HERE&#8217;S HOW IT COULD IMPACT YOUR TAX BILL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the end of the year, the agency hopes to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added a total of 5,000<\/a> customer services reps, so it will have to bring on 1,000 more.<\/p>\n<p>They will get multiple weeks of training on &#8220;technical account management issues and understanding and respecting taxpayer rights,&#8221; among other skills, the IRS said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/931\/523\/GettyImages-1231812116-1.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"IRS building\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>Signage outside IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C., March 19, 2021.\u00a0<\/span><span> (Samuel Corum\/Bloomberg \/ Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many will have completed their training by the time tax season begins in 2023, with &#8220;almost all&#8221; having finished by Feb. 20, according to the agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/personal-finance\/irs-raises-401k-contribution-limit-by-record-amount-inflation-rages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IRS RAISES 401(K) CONTRIBUTION LIMIT BY RECORD AMOUNT AS INFLATION RAGES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"inline image-ct\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxbusiness.com\/foxbusiness.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/931\/523\/IRS.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Internal Revenue Service\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><span>This April 13, 2014, file photo shows the IRS headquarters building in Washington.\u00a0<\/span><span> (AP Photo\/J. David Ake, File \/ AP Newsroom)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Our phone lines have been simply overwhelmed during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/category\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pandemic<\/a>, and we have been unable to provide the help that IRS employees want to give and that the nation\u2019s taxpayers deserve,&#8221; Chuck Rettig, the IRS commissioner, said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/finance\/taxes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">help is on the way for taxpayers<\/a>. As the newly hired employees are trained and moved online in 2023, we will have more (people assisting) on the phone than any time in recent history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/apps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electronically filing taxes is the quickest way to get a refund,\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/pub\/irs-utl\/oc-e-file.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>according to the<\/u><\/a> IRS, which has said it is experiencing delays processing paper tax returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc breaks down how the IRS has strayed from its role on &#8216;Kudlow.&#8217; The IRS has added thousands of new customer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1716666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1716666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}