IRS Chief Hones Elevator Pitch Ahead of Major Recruitment Push

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has a message for prospective IRS employees: The agency may not be your favorite, but it’s critical to the functioning of the US government and now is a key opportunity to improve it.

As the IRS prepares to hire tens of thousands of new employees in the coming years with the $80 billion it received in the Inflation Reduction Act, Werfel is working on his elevator pitch for potential candidates.

“The pitch is, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform and modernize one of the most important organizations in America,” Werfel said in an interview for ...