The shutdown has crippled IRS support services. If you have 1099/1042-S filing questions you need to figure out the answers on your own, or find a trusted advisor. The latest news reports are showing that IRS employees called back to work are not showing up and this is further hurting the paltry service levels ostensibly available for tax support.

This is directly impacting your ability to have questions about filing answered. In fact as quoted in an article published today at Politico the correspondent finds that: "So far this year, the IRS is only answering around a third of its calls...and the wait time is between 25 minutes and 40 minutes."

Meaning you have a one in three chance of even getting to wait for upwards of forty minutes just to have a single question answered. Moreover, those answers are not provided in writing. Worse yet, some of the IRS' best staff in such matters are not showing up to work or are taking jobs elsewhere - and walking away with the knowledge that could otherwise have answered your questions regarding technically complex matters like tax information reporting.

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