The Nation : No IRS Glitches Reported

The Internal Revenue Service, making an all-out effort to avoid a repetition of the tax-handling delays of last year, has processed more than four times as many returns as at this time in 1985. During the first 24 days of the year, 2.17 million individual returns were received at the 10 IRS regional service centers, contrasted with 2.77 million during the same period last year. The agency processed 382,000 returns through Jan. 24, and 87,000 last year at this time. “All 10 service centers report no significant processing problems so far,” IRS spokesman Larry Batdorf said.