
The administration has slashed the IRS workforce by nearly 26,000 people through buyouts and firings, marking a 25% reduction in staffing as President Trump works to reverse President Biden’s buildup at the tax agency.
The cuts sliced through some of the most prominent IRS divisions, taking out 27% of the tax examiners and 26% of the revenue agents, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said.
Information technology is shedding 23% of its workforce, and the management and analysis division will lose 28% of its staff.
“These separations will have nationwide implications,” the inspector general said.
The data, which was current as of May, showed that most of the departing staffers have accepted one of the administration’s various buyout offers.
That included about 4,600 approved under the initial January buyout offer and 17,000 approved for voluntary early retirement. Thousands more were part of smaller separation programs, and about 300 were from an official “reduction in force.”
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