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Workers at an IRS processing center run by Mellon Bank hid thousands of tax returns or put them with papers to be shredded apparently because they thought they had fallen behind, a top Mellon official said.At least 40,000 federal tax returns and payments totaling $810 million were either lost or destroyed at the Pittsburgh center, which handled returns and payments sent by taxpayers in New England and parts of New York state.Earlier this month, Mellon lost its contract to run the Pittsburgh IRS Processing Unit because of what bank chairman Martin G. McGuinn called gross disregard and some employees failure to follow company policy.The employees, who were immediately fired, apparently disposed of the records because they felt they were behind in their work, McGuinn said in an internal memo issued Tuesday.The center was set up to handle 1.7 million tax returns during the April rush. Mellon spokesman Ron Gruendl declined to go into specifics about any backlogs at the center or how or where the documents were hidden. The statement stands on its own, Gruendl said.Loss of Mellon s contract to run the center resulted in layoffs
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