The IRS is returning employees who used to process tax returns and other paperwork back to their old jobs for the next eight months to help the agency cut through its massive backlog, Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in an internal email Wednesday night.

Current resources simply aren’t enough to overcome the challenge, he said, so he’s pulling people out of their new posts to leverage their prior experience.

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