WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after the IRS announced that the 2014 tax filing season will be delayed by one to two weeks because of the government shutdown:
“This is yet another unfortunate effect of a shutdown that Republicans should have never caused. The entirety of the shutdown’s harmful impact won’t be known for months, if not longer. But what is already clear is that it has cost our economy tens of billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs. This tax-filing delay just adds insult to injury for Americans hoping to get a jump start on their tax refunds in January."
