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Despite Added Funding, Dim Portrait of IRS Aid

By SARAH DORSEY
Posted 2/1/16

This tax-filing season prob­ably won’t be fun if you need help from the Internal Revenue Service, if recent experience is any indication.

The National Treasury Employees Union last month predicted some improvement after Congress boosted the agency’s budget by 2.5 percent, but warned taxpayers to “brace themselves for dropped calls, extended hold times and long lines.”

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