DOJ Is Urged Not to Dissolve Its Tax Division in Restructuring

April 3, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

Former US tax officials urged the US Justice Department not to dismantle its tax division in an agency-wide reorganization, warning that such a move would hobble enforcement.

More than 60 lawyers wrote Wednesday in response to a March 25 memo by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that called for a broad reorganization of the department, including reassigning tax lawyers around the country while keeping a “core team of supervisory attorneys” in Washington.

“Dismantling the tax division would do a grave disservice to tax administration by destroying consistent and competent application of our tax laws,” the lawyers wrote. Many of them ...

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