The IRS should more quickly update the accounts of potentially dangerous taxpayers in response to agency employees’ reports of assaults or threats, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said in a report released Thursday.
TIGTA found that while the agency did respond quickly to these reports, it could be quicker to update the taxpayers accounts to add indicators reflecting the reports. TIGTA found it took on average 30 days for indicators to be added to accounts across 790 cases the watchdog reviewed between October 2019 and November 2022—the time it took ranged between one and 1,058 days.
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