Two of the IRS departments responsible for conducting taxpayer audits have seen their staffing reduced dramatically, with the Large Business and International Division down more than 20 percent ...

The tax agency overall is down a quarter of its staff through a combination of deferred resignations, retirements and RIFs, ...

The Internal Revenue Service is continuing to shed employees, with over 25% of its workforce now gone since the beginning of ...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is bracing for a challenging 2026 tax season following a significant reduction in its ...

T he Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is on the brink of a major transformation as it drafts a plan to cut its workforce by half. This move comes after the agency began President Trump's term with ...

IRS workforce challenges The IRS started the year with a headcount of over 102,000 federal employees, and six months into 2025, that figure has dropped to just 75,702.

The IRS disclosed that it was drafting a plan to reduce its workforce by half. The agency started Trump’s presidency with almost 100K employees, but nearly 7K have been laid off since February 20th.

The workforce needs to be shored up, but also able to deal with the "increased complexity of the business world" and new technologies, he said, something that others echoed.