Probably due to threats to IRS employees from taxpayers...public-facing IRS employees get to use a “Stage Name”. Although the “IRS Taxpayer Advocate” says that their ID (for “home visits”) will have their real? full name on it:
So ... due to threats to We the People from IRS thugs, do IRS-facing Citizens get to use a "Stage Name"?
We're not allowed to lie to them ... fair enough. Allowing them to lie to us is intolerable and must end.