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As the other replies are mentioning, the IRS actually bucks the trend. Historically at least they are very well funded, and investment in this kind of customer service literally pays off as they help taxpayers get their tax in correctly. You can call the 800 number and actually get an agent on the other end who knows the system and is empowered to help you out.

I haven't had to call in for an agent post-Trump though, so things could have changed. (Not meant as a political statement; it's a simple fact that Trump utterly destroyed their funding for a few years.)




The IRS recently got an infusion of $80B to hire 70k agents. Hope they are as productive


That's partisan disinformation. It was debunked repeatedly, but by then the lie was halfway around the world, as it were: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/06/us/politics/irs-agents-fa...




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