Posted on 02/15/2025 4:00:15 AM PST by TigerClaws
Investing.com -- The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is set to lay off thousands of employees next week, according to a late Friday report by Bloomberg. This decision could strain the tax agency's resources during the crucial tax-filing period.
The command to dismiss probationary employees, who are relatively new to their roles and lack full civil service job protections, came from the Office of Personnel Management. This office is responsible for overseeing federal hiring. The directive was issued last Thursday.
The exact number of IRS employees who will be dismissed remains uncertain. The IRS currently employs approximately 100,000 people. The source expressed concern that these cuts could hinder the agency's ability to manage the tax-filing season effectively.
"There are trying to reduce numbers across the board with no analysis to the impact it will have on operations," Bloomberg reported.
The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) was the first to report on the impending layoffs at the IRS.
Who’s left may actually have to put in a day’s work.
Be nice if we flat tax it and lay ALL of them off.
Lot of bookkeepers and CPAs would lobby against that though and it’d take away the ‘everyone is a criminal’ lawfare opportunities involved in an absurdly complex tax system.
Yes, flat tax and reduce the personel to two.
Didn't pedojoe hire 87,000 of them? Talk about bloat. If we go to a combination of tariffs and, say, a national sales tax, you won't need the original 13,000.
Seven. You'll only need seven employees to run the IRS.
When the income tax was first proposed the people were promised it was only for the ultra rich and average Americans would never be taxed. They lied.
I have two suggestions.
First abolish the income tax completely. Instead have fixed (within the constitution) 1% sales tax on all non-necessities (exempt food, clothing, transportation and housing) items.
Limit the fuel tax and fix so it only is used for road infrastructure.
Add a tariff on all imported goods, minimum 10%.
Or, raise the income level to whatever is the top 10% earnings and no one making less then that would even need to file.
Once we root out the theft of our money we won’t need the IRS. Your plan would pay for Social Security, defense, and the actual reasons we need a federal government (federal highway system).
Rest of it need to disappear.
bye bye, all the pain and suffering many of you have caused. DEI hires joyfully auditing those they despise are now realizing karmas a bitch.
I can’t get them to respond to letters now. Fewer employees... 😱 They send out ridiculous notices, and we respond several times before they correct the problem.
I had an IRS employee call and reprimand me as I wrote across the top of my response letter with red bold tip permanent marker in letters 2” high, “THIRD RESONSE, PLEASE PROCESS THE CORRECTION.”
She had my letter on her desk and her supervisor saw the red text and reprimanded her for not resolving it.
After that I use the big red letter message frequently as it works.
Most of the people who are losing their jobs were relatively new hires—which means they were DEI hires.
That means their resumes are inflated since their credentials were obtained by DEI fakery—from top to bottom.
That means they have few if any skills of actual value in the marketplace.
Let us be honest about this—for most this will be the first time in their lives they will have to face a cold cruel real world.
Some will come out of it wise and strong.
Some will be crushed.
It is about time. Get rid of the corrupt supervisors too. They are the ONES who create all of the problems in there.
Get your refund request in early or payment will be delayed. Trump should hold off on this because it will not be popular this time of year.
No!! Get the Feds out of fuel taxes totally. Let the States collect and use a tax on gas, oil, tires, batteries, etc.
Hang a sign over the interstate highway system “ Mission Accomplished”.
Now you states have local maintenance and a few new connectors.
I’ll owe them. No sense in giving them a free loan.
Take all that away from them. THEY WON’T BE NEEDING IT.
No!! Get the Feds out of fuel taxes totally. Let the States collect and use a tax on gas, oil, tires, batteries, etc.
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I am open to compromise.
I was thinking about this the other day. Back in the day they had to have a human look at every single return and they did a pretty decent job. Today computers scan the info and flag returns that are outliers from average. Yet I never recall hearing about the irs scaling back.
My 2023 return just finished processing because it was flagged. Took nearly a year and I was prompt to supply every request for more info.
The fact that they have a 100,000 people available to fire is disturbing. It infers that they employ thousands more. If we need tens of thousands of people for this… the system itself is the problem.
Flat tax, fair tax, whatever… simplify it. No social engineering, no redistribution of income, no BS. And with that, we need a sliver of the IRS staff we have today to enforce a taxation method that can be written on one page.
What we have today is costly and stupid. Incredibly time wasting and frustrating. And worse, it’s an insulting redistribution of wealth, from people trying to earn a living and pay bills.
How do you expunge from your hiring history that you were dumb and evil enough to take an IRS job?
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