WASHINGTON - The official open date of the 2023 tax filing season is Jan. 23, when the IRS will open accepting and processing 2022 returns, the agency announced Thursday.

The news comes once the National Taxpayer Advocate reported Wednesday that the IRS watchdog is seeing "a delectable at the end of the tunnel" of the IRS' customer overhaul struggles, thanks to the hiring of thousands of new workers and tens of billions of bucks in new funding provided to the IRS in the Democrats' weather and health law.

Agency leadership says taxpayers should seek information from a smoother filing season this year.

"We've trained thousands of new employees to respond phones and help people. While much work remains once several difficult years, we expect people to experience improvements this tax season," said Acting IRS Commissioner Doug O'Donnell.

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The IRS has most recently added 5,000 new customer overhaul representatives who were trained in taxpayer rights and technically account management issues and is chipping away at the hundreds of thousands of unprocessed returns from last tax season.

The House Republican greatest has promised to rescind the nearly $71 billion that Congress had performed the IRS, even though the bill they approved Monday is unlikely to approach in the Democratic-run Senate.

The filing deadline for most taxpayers to submit their 2022 tax returns, file extensions and pay money owed is April 18. That is because the normal filing date of April 15 falls on a weekend and the District of Columbia's Emancipation Day holiday falls on April 17.

Taxpayers requesting an extension will have pending Oct. 16 to file.