After just two months of the job, President Trump has put an uncomfortable spotlight on the agency to remove Billy Long as the head of IRS, which was already churned through six separate leaders this year.
Several sources, familiar with the case, told The Hill that the leadership in the Treasury Department has long collided and there was a concern within the administration that he was not a good fit to lead an agency that proud to implement the policy without catching in a biased drama.
But his exit also means that IRS will have the seventh commissioner of the calendar year, in which Treasury Secretary Scott Besent took over on an interim basis.
“I think they are going through unrest right now,” a source familiar with the case told The Hill. “People don’t know now what the future is.”
Long was a controversial option to lead IRS, which is a technical agency responsible for collecting tax revenue and implementing the country’s tax laws. A former Republican Congressman in Missouri worked as an auctioneer and a real estate broker for a long time. He investigated his promotion of an epidemic-era’s tax credit, which was filled with claims of fraud.
After the former Congressman confirmed a party-line Senate vote in June, the job lasted for less than two months.
Sources told The Hill that the disappointment among the Treasury officials along with the IRS leadership was increasing since the arrival of Long as Commissioner. A source familiar with the case said that Long had commented out of the script, which required clarification or cleaning, some were seen as a special issue on an issue as a tax -sensitive as a tax.
Especially an event was seen as the final straw when a conference was stated at a conference last month that the tax filing season would begin in February next year, a change from the specific initial point of January.
He announced after minutes in a social media post His departure From IRS, Long wrote that the tax filing season “will start around MLK Day at customary time.”
“These people are professionals and know what they are doing,” has long been added to top treasury authorities.
A source told The Hill that senior Treasury officials felt that the term of the long is “an impossible position” that needs to be resolved.
Washington Post Informed Another reason for the long shift for an ambassador was: that the IRS had hit a push with the White House to use private tax data to track the unspecified immigrants.
In response to a question from The Hill during Tuesday’s press briefing, Secretary of the White House Press, Karolin Levit said, “I think President Billy wants to see Billy as an ambassador in Iceland for a long time. As you know, that is, he is,” White House Press Secretary Karolin Levitt said in a question to the question during Tuesday’s press briefing. “And President Billy loves Long, and he thinks he can do well to the administration in this situation.”
A spokesman for the Treasury “praised the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of the long and brought a new view to the federal government.” The spokesman said that a new candidate for the IRS Commissioner would be declared “at the appropriate time”.
Trump is expected to declare his choice to replace it for a long time. Bessent is already deeply involved in macro-economic issues and Trump’s points on business talks have been a person, making it difficult for him to oversee the IRS on an interim basis.
The next IRS commissioner will also be assigned to take care of the earlier Tax season Since the passage of large -scale reconciliation bills. The law enhanced the 2017 tax deduction and implemented taxes on state and local tax deductions, child tax credit, tax wages and taxes on overtime wages and various other small changes.
“You want the stability of leadership,” a formula told The Hill. “It creates an atmosphere and atmosphere for the organization to complete its work, reduce mistakes and complete its mission.”
Changes over IRS come at a time when alarms are ringing about Democrat Trump’s decision, which forward Erica McAinter as Commissioner of Bureau of Labor Statistics and changed her With a conservative economist.
Following the reports of jobs released in early August, the move was shown in July and the major downward amendment in the at least adaptable hiring and the Jobs report from May and June.
While Trump and his colleagues argued that change would improve transparency and accuracy, critics said what was very low of MCENTARFER, which was shown. Economists and MPs also expressed concern that it would destroy credibility and confidence in government data, damaging businesses and consumers in this process.
“In a few months, Trump and his crew have already stopped taxpayer service, made IRS data a weapon against innocent taxpayers and set us up for the disaster when the next year’s filing season comes around the next year’s filing season,” Sen Ron Widen (DO), Senate Finance Committee rankings members said in a statement. “This is what trumps – select unable to unable to serious jobs, and sit back as a pile of disadvantages.”
