As the IRS’s digitization efforts amid tax season continue, a bipartisan pair of senators are pushing for another technological change aimed at easing the processing of returns. The Barcode Automation ...

Last April, the IRS launched its Zero Paper Initiative to speed up paper tax return processing. The project isn’t going well.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM) – The deadline for filing tax returns is five weeks away, but finding the right forms is taxing in its own right. That's what Gary Alcumbrack of Wyoming found out. He ...

Congress is making another run this year at legislation aimed at more easily digitizing paper tax return forms at the IRS. Reps. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., and Rudy Yakym, R-Ind., this week introduced ...

A TIGTA report reveals paper returns make up just 6% of filings, but drive 72% of processing costs. Funding cuts and staffing shortages are making it worse.

Paper-based processes have long hampered the IRS and frustrated taxpayers. The challenges created by paper are two-fold: taxpayers are unable to digitally submit many forms and correspondence beyond ...

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 ...