The IRS answers the tax-assistance line only about 11% of the time, and those lucky souls got through after an average of 29 minutes on hold.
28 percent of calls received a “courtesy disconnect,” which is IRS-speak for hanging up on people after they’ve been on hold for 90-120 minutes, and telling them to try it over again later.
The IRS takes over 350 days to resolve cases of identity theft involving fake returns.
IRS staff enter paper returns into the IRS system by hand, resulting in up to 43% error rates.
Treasury’s inspector general estimated the IRS could save over $200 million a year in labor costs just by ending manual data entry of paper returns.
https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/transforming-internal-revenue-service
I would be interested how is it in other countries...
A co bude dál? Jestli se chce Zelenskyj vyhnout něčemu mnohem horšímu, totiž lekci z evropské dekadence, pokud by žádal o bezpečnostní záruky na starém kontinentu, vzkáže velmi brzy svou omluvu a dopřejeme si úspěšný 2. pokus.
It is really "funny" to see the same people who were going crazy about spending money and giving support to Ukraine to now spending money and giving support to Israel.
Tribalism is one of the worst enemies of clear thinking.
For another example, after watching the whole thing for himself, rabidly pro-Ukraine influencer Konstantin Kisin (670K followers) retracted his early blame of Trump/Vance and admitted the meltdown was Zelensky’s fault