Federal Continue to make cutsInternal Income Service (IRS) is reported to be planning to reduce its work strength by tens of thousands of employees the middle of the tax season.
According to two anonymous sources that spoke to Associate press At the beginning of this week, the IRS is preparing to cut as much as 50% of its workforce 90,000 people through dismissal, purchases and withdrawal or not by replacing the dismissal employees. Up to 45,000 jobs can be at risk.
Sources were told New York Times Since IRS workforce reductions can hinder the agency's ability to process millions of tax returns each year and perform audits. For example, US residents may face longer waiting time for refunds.
It is unclear when the IRS will carry out holidays from work and which departments will be affected. IRS officials must submit a work force Decreasing plan in the White House by March 13th.
Cuttings are part of President Donald Trump's efforts to reduce the federal government through the Elon Musk (DGE) government's efficiency department. Times It reports that two representatives of DOGE, Gavin Cliger and Sam Corcos, have worked from the IRS headquarters in Washington DC in recent weeks, and require access to agency databases.
IRS has already begun to reduce its work power. In February, the agency was fired About 7,000 test workers with one year or less experience in staff. The extensions mainly influenced the employees of the compliance department that ensured taxpayers to submit their returns, followed the tax code and paid their taxes.
At the beginning of this month, Bloomberg reported that between 4,000 and 5,000 IRS employees He also accepted a stimulated offer of resignation by President Donald Trump's administration that allows them to resign and receive full salaries and benefits by September 30. Some IRS workers are considered critical for the tax filing season should work to work until at least May 15even if they have accepted the purchase.
Employees who resign through the purchase, along with those influenced by vacation, count on the Trump administration's goal for shortening the agency's workforce in half, for Times.
Another part of the reduction of IRS workforce means the movement of some IRS employees in the Department of Internal Security to help implement immigration. Secretary of Internal Security Department Kristi Noem wrote with a letter For Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on February 7 that the safety of the homeland needed special agents from the Criminal Investigation Division of 2,100 IRS people to help apprehend and remove undocumented migrants.
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Federal workforce cuts have also affected other agencies. CLOSER 7,000 employees From the Social Security Administration, or 12% of the workforce of its 57,000 members, they were left to go last week while the Department of Energy without over 10% of its staff, or 1,800 employeesceased last month.
There is around three million Total federal employee.