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After pushing 26,000 employees out, the tax agency is scrambling to find enough personnel to carry out its duties.
According to the employee familiar with the matter, the IRS is hoping to bring back approximately 300-400 workers who have been on paid leave for the past three to five months. Employees on paid leave ...
Critics of Direct File say it competes with software from tax-preparation companies, and that the IRS spent tens of millions of dollars to launch the platform.
The IRS is asking the public to weigh in on free tax filing options for an upcoming congressional report, amid worries about ...
The Internal Revenue Service issued answers to frequently asked questions about the soon-to-expire tax credits for solar and ...
The report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration called on the IRS to include more phone lines and to ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has dramatically reversed course, shelving widespread layoffs under President Donald Trump ...
Over 6,000 Internal Revenue Service employees are expected to be terminated by the end of this week, according to a source familiar with the agency's plans. More than half of these employees ...
Erin Collins, the taxpayer advocate, has warned of service problems in the past, and Congress in 2022 provided the IRS with $79.6 billion to hire more employees and improve service.
According to an IRS data book, the agency employed about 15,500 customer service workers in 2021. The workforce has since grown to about 20,000, as of late 2023, the most recent figures available.
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel told Associated Press that “things are trending in a very positive direction in terms of our performance in taxpayer service,” but stated, “I view the identity ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) abruptly shuttered an investigation into the Clinton Foundation during the first Trump administration, according to internal IRS memos, es and related notes […] ...