IRS Chief Says Employee Retention Credit Claims Keep Coming

The IRS is still receiving thousands of employee retention tax credit claims, even after an agency moratorium on the pandemic-era program that’s been beset by fraud and pending legislation that would disrupt the deadline for making claims.

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told House Ways and Means lawmakers Thursday the tax legislation would help the IRS manage a mountain of claims it’s been struggling to sort through. The agency paused the processing of new claims in September to catch up on unprocessed claims and laser in on fraudulent promoters.

The IRS received about 17,000 to 20,000 claims just last week, Werfel ...