Posted on 02/20/2025 12:07:38 PM PST by RandFan
A scheduled purge of potentially thousands of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees scheduled to begin Thursday could “disrupt tax-filing season,” Politico reported on Wednesday evening.
According to the outlet and others, employees who are relatively new to the agency are expected to be hit hard by staffing cuts days after Elon Musk’s DOGE sought access to IRS computers. Politico reported...
Ellis told IRS employees on a video call, “We received notification today that employees in SB/SE who are on probation are scheduled for termination.”
In a separate call, she told workers she could not promise staffing cuts would not affect tenured employees.
According to The New York Times, as many as 6,000 IRS employees could be out of a job by the end of the week.
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I received my rebate today after less than 3 weeks. The possibility of being fired seems to have lit a fire under the employees and made them want to display their efficiency and usefulness. Last year it took over 4 months.
What they mean is political operatives in the IRS will use this as an excuse to sabotage peoples returns so they can blame President Trump.
...or not.
Media will always blame Trump, no questions asked.
Weird that the headline implies that it is a bad thing>
I’d consider it far more likely that deepstaters and TDS types would sabotage the process before I’d believe that Trump,et al are so stupid that they’d cripple the system with brainless cuts.
And?
Then?
So they are saying that criminal illegals, given tax IDs by the IRS, who file fraudulent returns may have their ill gotten extremely large checks of tax payer monies delayed? I can live with that.
*could*
Huh? It’s mostly automated now that people file electronically. They can fire even more.
I don’t get refunds anyway, so I don’t care.
It’s gonna be fun sending in that check to the irs knowing most of the money will be wasted or used to make my life worse. We’ve already suspected but president Trump and Elon musk have shown it to be true. Tax Day needs to be moved to the day before election Day
Well, if they don’t abolish the IRS the LEAST they could do would be to computerize it so that it doesn’t take 80,000+ people to make it possible for people to file their taxes.
IRS agents will pay particular attention this year to the charities for which you deduct donations.
I’ve done got my refund back. So, the scaremongering didn’t work on me.
Saw a great picture - five rodent senators standing in front of the IRS building talking to a crowd of protestors that DID NOT EXIST - they were there alone - nada - NOBODY WAS THGERE BUT THESE FIVE FOOLS.
could “disrupt tax-filing season,”
I doubt it. More chicken little the sky is falling propaganda.
When Biden came into office, there were 80,000 IRS employees. When he left, there were 100,000.
"Could".. but it WON'T... When you get RID of the DEAD WEIGHT...You ACTUALLY SPEED UP the process!
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