CARES Act Archive

Chaotic 2022 IRS Filing Season Shows Flaws in IRS Benefits Distribution
March 24, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As the deadline for the 2022 tax filing season nears, the IRS faces scrutiny for its backlog of returns, inaccessible taxpayer service, and delays in issuing certain refunds. As of January 28th, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had 23.7 million returns awaiting action, compared to a typical backlog at that point of roughly

Business Tax Refunds Must Be Provided Quickly During Future Downturns
February 1, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares During the pandemic, policymakers relied on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to administer business relief through the tax code. The emergency relief, including business tax refunds for net operating losses (NOLs), was intended to quickly help businesses that lost their source of income during the pandemic. A new report from the Government Accountability