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IRS moves forward with taxpayer service improvements

Written on Oct 28, 2022

The Internal Revenue Service announced significant progress to prepare for the 2023 tax filing season as the agency passed a milestone of hiring 4,000 new customer service representatives to help answer phones and provide other services.

These assistors have been hired over the last several months and are being trained to provide help to taxpayers, including answering phone questions. This is part of a much wider IRS improvement effort tied to the Inflation Reduction Act funding approved in August. The IRS continues working hard on implementing the landmark 10-year legislation, and updates on other improvement areas will be provided in the near future.

The customer service representatives being hired are in various stages of being onboarded. When they join the IRS, they will receive weeks of training to help serve people and improve the taxpayer experience. The training will cover a wide range of issues including technical account management issues and understanding and respecting taxpayer rights.

The goal is to add another 1,000 customer service representatives by the end of the year, bringing the total of new hires in this area to 5,000.

Many employees will be in place for the start of the 2023 tax season, and others will join as their training is completed in the following weeks. Almost all of their training will be completed by Presidents Day 2023; traditionally the period when the IRS sees the highest phone volumes. The IRS anticipates phones will be answered at a much higher level during the 2023 filing season.

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