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Trump’s shutdown could hinder tax collectors for ‘months, and even years’

Source: https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/20/trumps-shutdown-could-hinder-tax-collectors-months-even-years/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2f478451ab3e - Feb 20, 2019

President Trump’s partial government shutdown is over, but the haunting effects are not.

Perhaps nowhere is that demonstrated more than in the Internal Revenue Service, one agency that affects all Americans.

Listen to the words of advocate Nina Olson, an independent official within the IRS. Her latest report describes an agency with a “shocking” level of service, suffering a “cycle of frustration,” and one beset with long-standing problems made worse by the 35-day partial shutdown.

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