(Bloomberg) — The Internal Revenue Service is closing the last of its overseas taxpayer-assistance centers, saying that years of budget cuts have forced it to end a popular program designed to help citizens living or traveling abroad.
The closing of IRS offices attached to U.S. embassies in London and Paris, as well as the consulate in Frankfurt, will allow the agency to reassign about a dozen employees to its domestic offices and save about $4 million a year, the IRS said in a statement.
After workforce reductions at the IRS, Commissioner John Koskinen warned last month that refund checks may be delayed for millions of taxpayers this filing season.
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