RETURN Act

The Require Employees To Uniformly Return Now (RETURN) Act would mandate that all Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees return to in-person work and cease teleworking until the agency clears its backlog of 2020 income tax returns. Additionally, the bill would freeze any new funding for the IRS until the agency officially certifies that this specific backlog has been eliminated. For taxpayers, this legislation aims to accelerate the processing of overdue returns and refunds by requiring staff to work from physical offices until the agency's workload is up to date.