“The record backlog of troublesome returns comes just as the I.R.S. A revenue service spokesman said taxpayers whose refunds were long overdue should not send in duplicate returns until they had asked an I.R.S. But where the computer-encoded copy of a return has been accidentally erased, officials said, the revenue service may ask taxpayers to submit duplicates of their tax forms to get a refund. officials denied reports that large numbers of returns had been lost. From that date, taxpayers who filed their returns on time are entitled to 13 percent annual interest on their refunds, at a potential cost to the Government of millions of dollars. said the processing of 1.5 million individual returns had been delayed because of problems registering them with its master computer file in Martinsburg, W.Va.Īs a result, a large number of taxpayers – possibly several hundred thousand – may not receive their refunds until after the June 1 deadline that the Government is racing to meet. “The Internal Revenue Service, still suffering the effects of computer problems that plagued it earlier this year, said today that some taxpayers might have to file duplicate returns to get their refunds. May 25, 1985: 1.5 MILLION TAX RETURNS DELAYED IN PROCESSING By David E. (D-Ga.) has accused the IRS of ‘grossly inadequate planning’ for installation of its new computer, including underestimating the time it would take to train employees to use the system and choosing a computer language inappropriate to the type of computer.”
The delays were caused by the failure of the $103 million computer system to record many returns the first time they were put through the system.” Some area taxpayers who filed early in the tax season are experiencing unusually long delays in getting their refunds and, in a twist, taxpayers who waited longer to file are likely to get their refunds first. “Internal Revenue Service computer and operational problems are more widespread than previously thought, and more than 150,000 taxpayers may have received erroneous dunning notices from the troubled Philadelphia Service Center alone, according to two new government reports. Some anonymous IRS employees told journalists that the tax backlog had got so bad that agency workers had deliberately shredded thousands of returns.Īpril 29, 1985: IRS Problems Worse Than Previously Thought By Anne Swardson, The Washington Post The sluggishness of the IRS, said Egger, is the result of glitches in setting up a new $103 million Sperry Univac 1100/84 computer system.” “IRS Commissioner Roscoe Egger acknowledged last week that his agency is taking as long as twelve weeks to send out refunds, two weeks longer than last year. Egger said, ‘we face the prospect of breakdowns which will make the service unresponsive to taxpayers and our own internal needs.’”Īpril 22, 1985: Taxes: Moving in Slo-Mo At the IRS Time Magazine The agency plans to put into effect a modernization program by 1985, replacing computers in its local service centers, buying a computerized microfilm research system and replacing outmoded hardware at the service’s National Computer Center. Its computer data facilities, parts of which are as many as 17 years old, must be replaced. is struggling with a data processing system that is, by its own admission, ‘grossly short of the capacity and modern state-of-the-art efficiency that is essential for an effective tax system in the 1980’s.’
The IRS and progressive Democrats continue to plead poverty and pretend the failure is due to insufficient funding rather than incompetence.īelow is a compilation of key news articles documenting the IRS failure, starting in 1982:Īpril 4, 1982: LAMENT OF THE REAGAN I.R.S.
Regardless of funding level and regardless of who controls the White House and Congress, the bureaucracy is simply unable to pull it off.
#THE PEOPLE WHO FIX COMPUTERS AT WORK UPDATE#
For 40 years the IRS has tried and failed to update its main computer system.
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