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CLEVELAND, Ohio — The IRS processed nearly 99% of individual income tax returns it received during the 2026 filing season and issued more refunds than a year earlier, even after losing more than a quarter of its workforce. But taxpayers whose returns needed extra processing or help from an employee often had a different experience. The national findings help explain how a Brunswick couple could wait five months for an $8,000 refund even though most returns moved through the system normally. These are five takeaways from the original article , which examined where IRS service held up and where staffing losses were most visible. Most returns still moved through the system normally The IRS received about 140.2 million individual returns through April 17 and processed about 138.6 million.

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