General Discussion

"Americans spend millions of hours and billions of dollars filing their taxes. At the very least the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should open, read, process and protect what Americans send them. Unfortunately, a recent report by the IRS watchdog, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), tells us the IRS destroyed an estimated 30 million paper-filed tax documents without processing them. As the Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Finance Committee, I led a letter to IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig highlighting TIGTA’s findings and asking questions about why the IRS would destroy 30 million tax documents without processing them first."........ https://www.crapo.senate.gov/news/in-the-news/weekly-column-why-did-the-irs-destroy-30-million-paper-returns