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The Internal Revenue Service is continuing to shed employees, with over 25% of its workforce now gone since the beginning of the year, according to a new report.
July 23 -
House Republicans have introduced a spending resolution that would slash IRS funding by around $2.8 billion, threatening taxpayer service and enforcement.
July 22 -
The IRS's progress in improving tax compliance in recent years has been threatened by cuts in funding and hiring, according to a new report.
July 18 -
The Internal Revenue Service's plan under the Biden administration to audit high-income taxpayers appears less likely after staffing and budget cuts.
July 14 -
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration's latest report to Congress includes successes and failures at the IRS.
June 4 -
Billy Long's confirmation process to take the helm of the Internal Revenue Service is well underway, running alongside mass layoffs and other regulatory moves.
June 2 -
Cutbacks and vague guidance threaten the IRS's ability to carry out its responsibilities, which include overseeing the troubled nonprofit hospital sector.
May 29 -
The Internal Revenue Service is expected to lean more heavily on artificial intelligence technology to select cases as it carries out widespread layoffs.
May 27 -
The Internal Revenue Service has not yet satisfied the goal of the Payment Integrity Information Act to reduce improper payment rates to less than 10%.
May 12 -
The Internal Revenue Service has been conducting "sweeps" in recent years to uncover cases where high-income people have not been filing taxes.
May 6 -
More than 11,400 IRS employees have either received termination notices as probationary employees or voluntarily resigned, according to a new report.
May 5 -
Internal Revenue Service reports of the cost of the free tax-filing program left out at least $8.8 million in costs, according to a new report.
March 25 -
Between January 2021 and July 2024, the IRS processed nearly 610,000 manual refunds for deceased taxpayers, but in many cases took over a year.
March 20 -
Internal Revenue Service employees faced threats of assault during Saturday tax assistance events in 2024, according to a recent report.
March 19 -
TIGTA report suggests the IRS needs to do more to enable whistleblowers to report on fraud, waste and abuse, even if they've signed nondisclosure agreements.
January 30 -
The Internal Revenue Service is making progress on whittling down the amount of time it takes to help victims of tax-related identity theft.
January 29 -
The IRS doesn't have the authority to independently verify that recipients of Low Income Taxpayer Clinic grants are eligible to receive them.
January 23 -
Private collection agencies have recovered only about $2.4 billion in tax debt payments since April 2017 out of the $64.9 billion assigned to them by the IRS.
December 26 -
The Internal Revenue Service's program for destroying sensitive paper documents needs to be improved after inspectors found many documents easily accessible.
December 26 -
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration completed thousand investigations over the past six months that contributed to more than $6.1 billion in tax savings.
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