Posted on 02/20/2025 5:05:17 AM PST by V_TWIN
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service will lay off about 6,700 employees on Thursday, in a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency’s resources during the critical tax-filing season, a person familiar with the matter said.
The workers being cut are probationary employees who have typically been at the agency for less than one to two years, and enjoy fewer protections than longer-term workers. The IRS has a total of roughly 17,000 probationary employees.
The reductions at the IRS come amid a broader slashing of personnel across the federal government at the directive of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who is spearheading an unprecedented effort to shrink the bureaucracy.
Like other agencies, the IRS was ordered last week by the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees federal hiring, to dismiss all probationary employees
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Joe Biden doesn’t care. He gave the IRS the money to get them to back off the Hunter tax evasion investigations.
Throw them in internment camps.
I wish they would start with the armed agents.
I never could get my head around the idea of the Taxman toting a firearm in America.
No, he gave them money to go after us.
I understand why DOGE started with USAID (Ukraine War for starters), but it would have been HYSTERICAL watching the Democrats bitch, had they started with the IRS.
Happy Thursday!!!
They can pick the crops…..
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
“... in a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency’s resources during the critical tax-filing season ...”
Unless the remaining IRS employees are double-digit IQ drones they will get the message: “You are expected to provide a full day of productive work for which you are being paid a fair if not exorbitant salary.”
If you disagree with that analysis, you are encourages to seek employment elsewhere.
Why are they crying?
They could have taken the buyout and been paid till September
I guess the remaining slackers need to “pick up the slack”. Finally...someone expecting them to show up to work...and work! Isn’t that something? Who would have thought that government employees should show up...and work?
It was very obvious. It was just like Ukraine.
The IRS had Hunter and Joe in their sights. Joe fought to keep the IRS funding in the Budget Reconciliation Act as though his life depended on it. It did!
Joe BRIBED the IRS.
Did the Inflation Reduction Act fund the IRS?
“This boost in tax revenue occurred because of the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022. It originally allocated $80 billion in new funding for the IRS over 10 years. Congress later reduced that sum to $60 billion.”
It was unusual that Joe really fought for this. Now we know why.
Nope. But go ahead, keep thinking so.
6,700?
Not enough.
Good. I already got my refund. I’m still trying to figure out what to do with my $69 windfall. I don’t want to spend it all in one place.
They can direct their remaining efforts towards the Congress starting with those whose ratio of cumulative salaries to net worth is off the bell curve.
I would call it a good start.
You have to figure that ALL of the Federal government agencies could easily trim 10% of their workforce.
That is why they offered the early retirement and 75000 took it. Which was smart for those people. I suspect most of them could retire with a full pension already.
The next step is to review and cut out the low hanging fruit.
Which is what this is.
After that comes the harder decisions. Plus the eventual elimination of entire departments like Education.
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