The IRS expects new hiring authority will allow it to bring new employees onboard within 40 to 45 days, rather than several months, to deal with a major backlog of tax returns and correspondence.
The agency received direct hire authority from Congress in the fiscal 2022 spending bill that President Joe Biden signed into law this week.
That spending bill also gave the IRS its highest budget in decades.
IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said this hiring flexibility, combined with the agency receiving a lighter paper-based workload this filing season, puts the agency on track to resolve its major tax return and correspondence backlog by the end of December.
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