The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is stopping its retrenchment plan and aims to re -staff the agency.
“IRS works to modernize and implement President Trump’s agenda, including a large beautiful bill, we are committed to ensure that the agency is appropriately staffed to serve the American people effectively and efficiently,” a spokesman of the Treasury said in a statement.
It represents a reversal from the months of cutting months by the IRS, which has been in the upheaval for months and Lost recently Its Commissioner, Billy Long.
sincefebruaryIRS has tried to reduce its workforce from 100,000 employees60,000,
He fired 6,700 employees on 20 February, especially in teams working on tax compliance. In March, IRS intends to cut employees National Taxpayer Association (NTA), which reports to the Congress about IRS services. In April, it Wet The office of compliance and civil rights as the government’s efficiency department (DOGE) recommended a total cut of up to 20 percent.
In February, Kevin Husset, president of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, said the administration believes that many people were employed by the government to collect taxes.
He said, “I think our aim is to ensure that the employees we pay are productive and effective. And many, there are more than 100,000 people working to assemble taxes. And all of them are not fully occupied,” he said in the White House at that time.
There were previous signs of a reversal by IRS.
On 1 August, a memorandum for those working in the Civil Rights Office has long been stated that the agency has reversed its decision to close it. Was obtained by memo Federal news network
Additionally, there has been there Worry Closing IRS employees can cause problems for the tax filing season. In 2024, IRS was responded to less than one third of a call.
In July, Congress’s Democrats also sent a letter to the IRS that showed that their constituents were receiving “bounce-back” emails without any response, Government executive,
IRS cuts have been part of a comprehensive attempt by the Trump administration to cut federal workers, although the IRS has paid more attention to the biden administration due to investment in the south to create a tax collection agency.
Since February, the Trump administration has cut around 150,000 government employees, arguing that it would make the government more efficient. By the end of 2025, Estimate Show that the federal workforce will be reduced by 300,000 workers due to pruning plans and procurement.
