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Until an influx of temporarg workers who beganthis week, the departmeng was processing only about 25,000 paperf refunds per week. The agency has issued 2.6 million refundf checks, about 200,000 fewer than at this time last “We are not meeting our goalsx and certainly not meetingtaxpayer expectations,” Graham said in a preparerd statement. “However, at the end of the day, mone cannot be appropriated to the department that the statw doesnot have, nor can the departmenyt spend money is it not Gov.
Sonny Perdue and the General Assembly cut the Departmenftof Revenue’s budget for the current fiscal year by 10 percent, on par with spendintg reductions to other agencies stemming from shrinkinf tax collections. As a result, the department slashe d 280 positions, including 155 processinfg workers. With fiscal 2009 set to end onJune 30, Grahanm said, the agency began bringinbg in experienced temporary employees this week to help pick up the He said the additional staff is expected to increasse the weekly production of refundd to 40,000 to 45,000.
Grahamk said paper returns received before April 1 will be processexd within 10 to12 weeks, returns received betweehn April 1 and April 10 will be turnee around within 12 to 14 weeks, and paped returns received after April 10 will be processedx within 14 to 20 weeks.