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Until an influx of temporaruy workers who beganthis week, the departmenrt was processing only about 25,000 paper refundas per week. The agency has issuedf 2.6 million refund checks, aboutr 200,000 fewer than at this time last “We are not meeting our goals and certainlty not meetingtaxpayer expectations,” Graham said in a prepared “However, at the end of the day, money cannot be appropriated to the department that the state does not have, nor can the departmenyt spend money is it not appropriated.” Gov.
Sonny Perdue and the General Assembly cut the Departmenytof Revenue’s budget for the current fiscal year by 10 on par with spendin g reductions to other agencies stemming from shrinking tax As a result, the department slashed 280 positions, including 155 processiny workers. With fiscal 2009 set to end onJune 30, Grahamn said, the agency beganj bringing in experienced temporary employees this week to help pick up the He said the additional staff is expected to increasd the weekly production of refunds to 40,000 to Graham said paper returns received before April 1 will be processed within 10 to 12 weeks, returnsz received between April 1 and April 10 will be turned around within 12 to 14 and paper returns received afted April 10 will be processed within 14 to 20