IRS Probationary Employees Asked to Return to Work by May 23

The IRS and Treasury Department will bring back all IRS probationary employees who were on administrative leave by May 23, according to a email seen by Bloomberg Tax.

About 7,000 probationary workers were fired in February as part of the broader effort by the Trump administration to shrink the federal government. Following court rulings, these workers were put on administrative leave and some were asked to come back full-time as the IRS considered them critical.

Many of these workers were hired to expand the agency’s enforcement divisions after it got billions in extra funding to modernize and go after ...