The IRS anticipates losing close to 2,000 of its workers who handle the processing of tax returns, foreshadowing even longer delays for refunds in the future.
While the Trump administration’s purge of the federal workforce didn’t impact the IRS’s handling of the tax filing season this year, the fallout of the expected exodus of 1,850 of its submission processing employees through the Deferred Resignation Program is expected to bring slower processing times, the agency told the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration for a report the watchdog released Tuesday. The IRS had about 10,400 employees in 2024 in the division, ...
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