The Internal Revenue Service is temporarily re-assigning about 1,200 employees to help the agency navigate what will likely be one of the most challenging tax filing seasons in years, according to a person familiar with the plans.
The employees will serve as additional customer customer service representatives and tax examiners to help the agency address a large backlog of unresolved tax returns from previous years. Those workers will be moved in the coming weeks and stay on through the fall, according to the person, who was granted anonymity to discuss the preparations.
The influx of attention on the backlog comes ...
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