In February 2025, the Internal Revenue Service had approximately 103,000 employees. By March, more than 11,400 of those workers had received termination notices as probationary employees or ...

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is now over. The backlog of work, however, remains. As the IRS scrambles to get back to business as usual, taxpayers should expect delays. The ...

No one wants to be audited by the IRS. And, in fact, very few US taxpayers have been in recent years. Less than 1% of all returns filed between 2013 and 2021 had been audited as of the end of fiscal ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is poised to reach up to a 40% reduction of its workforce, multiple outlets reported. The notices of reduction of force are scheduled to start going out to employees ...

Tax experts, IRS employees and former Treasury Department officials are all warning that the US government could lose hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue because of the Trump administration’s ...

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July 02, 2025 - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is facing a steep workforce reduction that threatens its capacity to assist businesses just as many confront growing uncertainty around global trade ...

New data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shows the size of the average tax refund received by taxpayers is up from a year ago. IRS data for the 2024 tax filing season through the week that ...

Knowing that you owe money to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) can be stressful enough, but if the situation escalates to the point of wage garnishment, those stress levels can surge. Unlike private ...

The IRS has become ground zero for some of the most heated political battles of President Trump’s first 100 days in office. The tax collection agency is the site of controversies ranging from the use ...

The identity validation service, ID.me, is the only option for taxpayers looking to access the more sensitive online services offered by the IRS. The IRS isn’t doing quality control checks on the ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced new guidance on Friday aimed at dramatically reducing examination times for corporate taxpayers while making the audit process more collaborative and ...