{"id":1189,"date":"2016-10-07T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2016-10-07T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:02:15","slug":"the-irs-is-downsizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/the-irs-is-downsizing\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRS is Downsizing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just two weeks ago, a friend at the Internal Revenue Service in Birmingham told me that next year when their lease is up on the building at 801 Tom Martin Drive, they will relocate to a smaller space in a federally owned building downtown. This week we learn …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

IRS\u00a0Plans To Close Three Tax Return Processing Centers<\/h1>\n

7,200 Jobs to be Phased Out<\/h2>\n
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Young lady performing job search<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The three centers that process paper tax returns in Covington, Kentucky\/Cincinnati (2019); Fresno, California (2021); and Austin, Texas (2024).<\/p>\n

According to the IRS, the result would be a loss of 1,800 employees in Covington; 3,000 employees in Fresno; and 2,400 employees in Austin.<\/p>\n

The reason for the closures are largely economic: the percentage of individual tax returns filed electronically has grown from 58% in 2008 to 86% in 2015.<\/p>\n

Under the IRS\u2019 plan, only two paper-return processing sites will be left after 2024: Kansas City, Missouri, and Ogden, Utah.<\/h3>\n

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Just two weeks ago, a friend at the Internal Revenue Service in Birmingham told me that next year when their lease is up on the building at 801 Tom Martin Drive, they will relocate to a smaller space in a federally owned building downtown. This week we learn … IRS\u00a0Plans To Close Three Tax Return […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-10-07T14:03:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"cd73dd8a-cda2-4118-99e7-c6eb7358ed4c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-10-07T14:03:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AzXPdis2iQRiZ58brc1jtTA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/u48r14.digitalhub.com\/sections\/74d71b26-dfe2-3cf6-9b79-55911f8259f1"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookco.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}