IRS awards $1K bonuses to ‘surge team’ employees tackling tax return backlog




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Summary: The IRS is telling temporarily reassigned “surge team” employees that they will need to continue their work cutting down the agency’s pandemic-era backlog of tax returns through the end of the year. But to thank employees for their efforts, which have cut the backlog by more than half since the start of the year, the IRS is giving these frontline workers a onetime $1,000 bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices