https://news.yahoo.com/one-photo-irs-cafeteria-overstuffed-200607832.html
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The IRS is underfunded and understaffed, and had to deal with new pandemic responsibilities.
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The result has been a massive backlog of unprocessed tax returns, many of them on paper.
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A photo from the agency's Austin facility shows just how much paper the IRS is dealing with.
Natasha Sarin, a tax policy and implementation counselor at the Treasury Department, shared a photo on Twitter of the cafeteria at the IRS's Austin site. In it, the room is "overrun" with paper returns awaiting employees.