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Cutbacks and vague guidance threaten the IRS's ability to carry out its responsibilities, which include overseeing the ...
The IRS, hit by the Trump administration's federal workforce cuts, has lost 31% of its auditors through March, government watchdog finds.
The Internal Revenue Service is expected to lean more heavily on artificial intelligence technology to select cases as it ...
Elon Musk has been a constant in the headlines while heading up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) since ...
As of March 2025, the IRS workforce had fallen by more than 11,000 employees, or 11%, according to a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report. The percentage of separated employees was ...
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Waste of the Day: “Free” Tax Returns Cost Too Much
Topline: The IRS estimated in December 2024 that its new Direct File tax return system would cost the government $61.1 million for an estimated 2.3 million users, or about $27 per person. But the ...
A letter led by Rep. Gerry Connolly asks Treasury’s OIG to investigate DOGE’s data and IT modernization work at the tax ...
Opinion: Groundwork Collaborative's Emily DiVito says cuts at the IRS could harm the agency's ability to enforce the tax code ...
A Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report released last week found that as of March, the IRS’s workforce had shrunk 11%, with 11,433 IRS employees terminated since President Donald ...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden wrote to Treasury’s acting inspector general for tax administration to request for an investigation into "alarming ...
A group of Senate Democrats on Friday sent a letter to the acting chief of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, requesting an investigation into whether the White House has pressured ...