The House Ways and Means Committee voted unanimously to approve a bipartisan bill that would accelerate processing of tax returns by the Internal Revenue Service through the use of barcode-scanning ...

Staffing shortages at the Internal Revenue Service has left a backlog of nearly 590,000 amended tax returns - and could result in delays to Americans receiving refunds, according to a recent report.

The Internal Revenue Service has made only limited progress so far on its goal of achieving "paperless processing," scanning only a tiny fraction of paper-filed returns last tax season, according to a ...