July 24, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
The Internal Revenue Service has made progress in improving the speed at which it processes applications by groups seeking tax-exempt status. But Nina E. Olson, the national taxpayer advocate, says the agency still is not moving fast enough.
Ms. Olson, who operates independently of other IRS offices and reports to Congress, said in a new report that she plans to work with the revenue service’s tax-exempt and government-entities division to change the way the agency processes applications for nonprofit status.
Ms. Olson said in her report that the IRS reduced its applications backlog by 55 percent as part of an effort to reduce these delays. But the IRS must take additional steps to reduce processing time, she said.
