Posted on 04/16/2025 10:54:16 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
In the United States, Tuesday, April 15 was the deadline for filing federal, state and local income tax returns. Some Americans owed money by April 15, while others are expecting refunds.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is processing millions of federal tax returns. But according to Politico reporters Sophia Cai and Benjamin Guggenheim, the IRS may have a greatly reduced workforce in the future. And Politico's reporting is receiving a lot of discussion on X, formerly Twitter.
Cai and Guggenheim, in a mid-April article, explain, "The IRS could see a mass exodus of up to 40 percent of its workforce through a combination of buyouts offered by the Trump Administration and widespread layoffs, according to an internal memo obtained by Politico. The memo outlines the agency's plans to reduce its workforce to between 60,000 to 70,000 employees, down from a previous headcount of roughly 100,000. Notices of 'reductions in force' will start going out this week, the memo says, specifying that 'taxpayer services and compliance will need to be trimmed.'"
The IRS is among the many U.S. federal government agencies being targeted for mass layoffs by the Trump Administration and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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Less agents, more workload processing returns instead of pointless audits.
And disarm the IRS, take their guns, they shouldn't have them.
Just another reason to abolish the IRS and go back to a tariff based funding of the government.
No known connection but cattle are protesting the lack of slaughter pens.
The only “alarm” from taxpayers is that the exodus wasn’t one hundred percent.
They can do what companies do in the real world. Make adjustments.
True. But when there’s nobody but an AI agent to protest to, the corrupt little bureaucrats might be missed a bit.
they use three tweets as proof of their allegation....
Yep....misleading headline from this fake news source.....which taxpayers are sounding any alarm??
The Polutico writers? X posters?
LOLOL.
If true I know who they are - the same ones seen driving their own cars alone wearing a covid mask and buying purple hair dye.
During the Obama reign of terror there was a news story about the IRS purchasing huge amounts of ammunition, enough for an army.
Not Babylon Bee?
I did our taxes 3 weeks ago. Got my refund last week. What’s the problem. Just another manufactured crisis invented by the left I suppose....
Rosanne Bahr was right. They have lost all credibility. All you do now is point and laugh at them. Like clowns at a circus...
The mass media is getting painted into a corner.
Now they are defending IRS agents!
Lol.
Agreed. We, too, already have our tax refund. Fake alarm.
Alarm? Only if no one is there to process a legitimate refund, not one of those “tax credit” giveaway bribes to Dem voters. Otherwise, shut it down. For good.
They were buying up ammo using every department so that we couldn’t buy it. It became quite obvious what they were planning.
When see a headline like this with their cutesy, overused “sound the alarm” cliché in the headline, I wonder which group of statist frauds wrote this one.
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Forget it Jake, it’s FWAT*.
*Forever war against Trump.
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