IRS plans to cut up to 25% of staff, starting with closing its civil rights office, AP sources say

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Source: AP via Yahoo Finance

The IRS plans to cut as many as 20,000 staffers — up to 25% of the workforce — as part of layoffs that began Friday, two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.

The job cuts will begin with the IRS Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, which would be reduced by 75% through layoffs, and its remaining workers would be absorbed into the agency’s Office of Chief Counsel, three people told the AP. Less than 200 people work in the Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, formerly known as the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to disclose the plans. The Washington Post first reported on Friday's layoffs at the IRS, which collects revenue and enforces tax laws.

The workforce reductions are part of the Trump administration’s efforts to shrink the size of the federal bureaucracy through billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The administration has closed agencies, laid off probationary employees who have not yet gained civil service protection and offered buyouts through a “deferred resignation program.”

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/irs-plans-cut-25-staff-002102211.html

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1. Wealthy tax cheaters love this

Fewer resources to investigate complex tax avoidance schemes

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2. That has been growing for decades

I recall when HWBush once told the director of the IRS, that the majority of all tax fraud was in the 15-25K wage earners, and not in the 200K plus group that the IRS was focusing on......

The director laughed in his face............

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3. Bad customer service

Thus administration is dumb enough to ban ACH payments.