Post by pavel on May 5, 2016 22:28:41 GMT -6
JACKSON - A second round of midyear budget cuts took place just as the Mississippi Department of Revenue was swamped with thousands of individual income tax filings.
Because of the cuts, the department had to send home 35 temporary workers it had hired to open mail because it couldn’t afford to keep them, agency spokeswoman Kathy Waterbury said Tuesday.
Other employees of the department are working extra hours to open the returns that have arrived since the April 18 deadline to file individual income taxes, she said. That includes auditors, revenue officers and customer service agents.
“Every last one of us will be doing some time in the mail room and doing key punch,” Waterbury told The Associated Press.
Read more: www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/03/budget-cuts-slow-handling-of-mississippi-income-tax-returns/83894616/
Because of the cuts, the department had to send home 35 temporary workers it had hired to open mail because it couldn’t afford to keep them, agency spokeswoman Kathy Waterbury said Tuesday.
Other employees of the department are working extra hours to open the returns that have arrived since the April 18 deadline to file individual income taxes, she said. That includes auditors, revenue officers and customer service agents.
“Every last one of us will be doing some time in the mail room and doing key punch,” Waterbury told The Associated Press.
Read more: www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/03/budget-cuts-slow-handling-of-mississippi-income-tax-returns/83894616/