The IRS is making a 180-degree turn in its hiring policies from the Biden to the Trump administrations.
The agency was planning to hire around 64,000 additional new employees between 2022 and 2031 under Biden administration policies after an initial $80-billion funding boost.
The Trump administration, according to media reports, has already laid off nearly 7,000 IRS employees and is planning to cut its 90,000-person workforce in half through a mix of layoffs, buyouts and attrition.
“The Treasury Department is considering a wide range of possible streamlining initiatives. While no plan has been approved to date, modernization is necessary to keep up with the process by which Americans file their taxes, including the reality that over 90 percent of individual tax returns are filed electronically,” a Treasury spokesperson told The Hill.
Tax administration experts told The Hill that this could be a drawn-out process as opposed to a fast reduction in staff.
— Tobias Burns
