Fast Facts
Each year GAO reports on federal programs with fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative goals or actions and ways to reduce costs or boost revenue. We testified that Congress and agencies could take 112 new actions to address these findings like changing how agencies buy goods and services to save money.
Agencies have made significant progress in addressing many of the over 1,100 actions we identified in the past decade. We estimate at least tens of billions of dollars in financial benefits have resulted since May 2020. Addressing all remaining actions could save tens of billions more dollars. We ll update total financial benefits in fall 2021.
Are you still waiting on this year s IRS refund? It may be late because the IRS never finished last year s returns
The U.S Government Accountability Office says the IRS is still missing staff and still doing last year s tax returns as it tries to tackle your refund. Author: Andrew Moore Updated: 8:45 PM CST March 11, 2021
BELL COUNTY, Texas Johnathan Smith tried to do everything right to get this year s tax return as fast as possible. He filed early in the first week of February, filed electronically and selected direct deposit.
Smith still hasn t gotten his return, he doesn t know when he can expect it and he has spoken the to IRS five times to try to find out why. He said thousands of people are in the same situation and have gotten the same message from the IRS website.