IRS Criminal Division Preps for Retirement Wave With More Hiring

IRS Criminal Investigation is hiring again as division chief Guy Ficco expects to lose up to 20% of the division’s special agents over the next two years.

IRS-CI, the agency arm that investigates criminal tax cases and other financial crimes, has largely avoided the massive workforce cuts that other agencies—and the IRS itself—have faced since the second Trump administration took power.

The criminal division lost about 300 workers, or 10% of its staff, this year, according to the National Taxpayer Advocate analysis of IRS data. A couple dozen of those who left were special agents, or law enforcement agents who ...