Scanning only small fraction of paper returns and requiring employees to manually key key in millions of pieces of information even as backlogs and errors risks mounted. The Taxpayer Advocate Service has described how the IRS only recently began scaling up scanning technology. Your modernization agenda at the IRS is aimed at streamlining paper processing with a plan to cut paper handling costs from roughly 450 million in 2024 to about 20 million in 2029. freeing up hundreds of millions of dollars to improve service and reduce waste. So if you could just take a minute, sir, to number one, how many paper returns does the IRS estimate it will receive this filing season? (01:39–01:57)
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Asserts that the IRS modernization agenda aims to reduce paper handling costs from $450 million in 2024 to $20 million in 2029.
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