WASHINGTON—The U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday said it would complete processing this week all the original, error-free 2021 individual tax returns received last year, clearing a backlog of 8 million returns, but the agency still faces major challenges.
The IRS said it has processed more than 143 million returns received in 2022, providing over $298 billion in refunds to taxpayers, but still had millions of paper returns to process because it started the year with a significant backlog.
