I was on the IRS website earlier looking for some personal information, and that led me to reading a few tax posts on Reddit, and every complaint was the same: "I mailed my tax return a year ago and it's still not processed!! HELP!" I saw one post that said the IRS is behind in processing millions of returns from the past two years, so I looked into it some more.

From the Wall Street Journal two days ago: "Anything that requires human eyes or hands at the IRS—paper returns, telephone calls and correcting errors made on returns—still could be subject to significant delays.

“I don’t even call them any more,” said Richard Pon, a San Francisco accountant, who says it is better to mail letters and wait several months for a reply, rather than charge clients while he waits hours on hold to speak with an IRS employee."

And from Accounting Today last week: "A group of 99 House Republicans has sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service commissioner Charles Rettig asking for information about how the IRS plans to fix the backlog of unprocessed tax returns before the 2022 filing season.

In a letter Thursday, the members pointed out the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration recently reported that more than 9.6 million unprocessed paper returns received in 2021, plus another 5 million paper and e-file returns, have been suspended during processing."

There is NO WAY that the IRS is going to bounce back from what the plandemic did to them, no matter how many henchmen Biden says he's going to hire. And due to changes in tax laws because of the plandemic, there is going to be even more of a delay. They will never, ever get close to caught up. Was this part of the plan, or just a nice side effect? And where does it go from here? Just curious what my frens think about this.

And I know a lot of people are talking about never filing again. I've always thought that unless this is a mass undertaking, it won't work. But...do they even have the ability to retaliate at this point? It's getting interesting if you really look at this situation. I'm not advising to not file. It's an extremely risky move. But it almost seems now that the IRS as we know it will cease to exist in the near future, simply because it has to. So much at the IRS is automated, but when people are still forced to mail late returns by mail, and many people even file current returns by mail, this requires human beings (or whatever the IRS hires) to do the handling and processing.

They cannot pretend to keep up with this much longer. They can't even answer their phone calls, numbers of which are increasing daily every time a taxpayer gets frustrated that their return they mailed a year ago hasn't been processed. Either things will get much better for the average American worker, or...they're planning some technological method of making our lives much, much harder and heavily taxed.

Thoughts?