The IRS is requesting several thousand employees return to work to open mail, process tax returns and perform other duties. The workers aren't required to return but will get incentive pay if they do.

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The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, DC. Zach Gibson/Getty ImagesThe Internal Revenue Service is requesting, but not requiring, several thousand employees to return to work to help open mail, process paper returns and perform several other duties, according to a statement released by the IRS on Saturday.

The statement said employees who return to work will be offered"incentive pay" and will be required to wear face coverings. The IRS statement said the agency is working to obtain personal protective equipment and expects many items to be delivered as soon as this weekend.

"Bringing employees back to work is essential to address mission-critical needs for the nation, and the IRS is an essential component to our country's whole-of-government approach to confronting the COVID-19 pandemic. To provide American taxpayers, including the most vulnerable, with the services they expect, it is essential that the IRS resumes a number of key responsibilities, including opening mail that has been held for a number of weeks, processing of paper tax returns that may offer refunds to taxpayers, working on returns with refundable credits, answering taxpayers' questions on our toll-free lines, and performing Income Verification Express Service and certain lien/levy functions. The IRS will continue to do everything possible to protect employees while also providing important services and assistance to the nation's taxpayers," the statement read.

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Just keep it closed permanently. IRS not needed. Treasury can handle. Suck it IRS. by it i mean Cuomos a$$hole. Lots have not received stimulas checks yet, how about getting them out to the people that really need them ! Any news on the Joe Biden sexual assault allegations, evidently there is a credible accusation out there and it is now backed up by the Larry King call. Biden is known for touching young women and sniffing their hair the creepy bastard. When are you gonna cover this story🤔🤔🤔

That's the difference in how the government is required to treat workers and how 'private business' is not required to...for all the talk of privatized industry being more freeing, that's only for the owners. It's worse for the worker. I hope so. Been waiting since St. Patrick's day. Cnn is run by the people's republic of China 🇨🇳

That sounds good because my refund was electronically filed March 3rd and it hasn't been processed yet neither am I able to get my stimulus because my taxes aren't refunded. Job closed and all, so I'm looking forward to my tax refund They’re federal employees. Incentive pay for opening envelopes? What a fucking joke🖕

Shut down the IRS How about those of us out here every day either prepping food, taking care of the sick and elderly, driving truck so y’all can get your groceries Na. AOC says the American people don’t need to work maga will fill the jobs libs will live in a different dimension see folks its gonna work out maga

I can only hope. Thanks to my ex's screw-up I had to paper file my taxes. So no tax refund, no stimulus check nada. I'm still working but I'd be making more on unemployment. Essential workers have been kind of screwed over with all of this HEADLINE Federal workers hold Government hostage over returning to work WOW.... where do I sign up? 'Hi ... What's your bid today to have me come back? --- hmmm... check back tomorrow...'' desperation = greed..

That's bullshit man. It's like paying people to risk their lives. Only in America! Please help me! My name is Lin donglong, an employee of China telecom fuzhou branch. Company manager huang fei (communist party of China) organized the leadership of the gang of evil forces brutal persecution: surveillance location,slander, abuse, framed to take nude photos of me

B vg Better to give them free health insurance than incentive pay, or maybe free life insurance. Вы молодцы A request that every company in the world has to ask to bring back their furlough and lockdown staff working from home. I will not be returning to the office anytime soon after lockdown, despite going crazy at home.

We did are taxes on vday!!! We didn’t get them yet... thankfully my husband is employed and if it’s 2 save a life and keep people from rushing together to get this virus we can n will continue to wait. It’s not a problem just hope if we do run into an emergency we can get it fast So basically they have to return immediately. When your boss suggests something then you do not have a choice because they will retaliate

I think that is a sensible approach provided they maintain social distancing and have PPE if necessary. It is an approach that could be extended. Essential workers who have worked through the crisis, should definitely receive a bonus too. They have kept the country safe. It's tough all over It was only a matter of time

What stimulus? What unemployment? That baloney doesn't exist for my family. That is shity Why the hell aren’t they required to return to work, like the rest of us? Public employee unions should be abolished. Ridiculous People need to get back to work overall. CNN, can we believe anything they say as long as Acosta and Brennan is still working there?

Yes, there are large open spaces . You shouldn’t return without a health check and mask . Don’t want the virus to spread through the service centers . worst run agency filed with THUGS I'LL go We don’t need the IRS Several thousand? 😬😬😬 Death and Taxes. Together at last! Good. I’ve needed to call them for weeks. If Walmart can be open the freaking IRS can be open. Sheesh.

So those sitting at a desk opening their computers, are going to get a pay raise, while those dressed in plastic bags going stand beside a ventilator of a Covid 19 patient have their salary cut... I think when this is done nurses globally should rethink their career path Interesting So we can all agree that the irs is not essential

Folks in IL want to return to work but GovPritzker won’t let them. The mayor of Chicago gets her hair professionally done when no one else in IL is allowed to visit a barber or hairdresser. Other states have been open, other states are opening. These people have better pay and benefits than our military personnel do, and they have to get incentives to work in essential tasks? Shameful! So much for the notion of public servants.

Health and money don't go hand in hand! Government work at it’s finest. In terms of economy and life, the United States still chooses the economy regardless of human life CNN sucks Why is it safe for IRS employees to work but “not safe” for most private sector workers to go back to work and earn a living to, you know, feed their families? Stop the hypocrisy.

Anything promised they better get it upfront since the moronavirus is known to back out. TrumpIsALaughingStock ChickenDonald A free funeral? Why weren’t they at work already? Oh. Because orange shitgibbon fired them. Not much diff than others essential places like Home Depot and Walmart Menards etc they are offering higher pay too

How about customer service? Don't have stimulus or tax return for over a month now! They get incentive pay but frontline workers can't get hazard pay? Pathetic. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Hmmm...that seems safe. not Maybe someone can get this stimulus debacle figured out Are they hiring ok Lets start with making Amazon publish the country of origen in the product description.

staycation is officially over Still haven't got my return.

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Next Wave of IRS Stimulus Payments Set to Hit Bank Accounts in Coming DaysThe Treasury Department is poised to send the second major wave of stimulus payments to people who have been waiting Is the IRS sending disinfectant too? Trump told us it would cure Covid-19! omg Still haven't got the first one in our direct deposit!!!