Posted on 03/10/2025 6:46:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump is planning to gut the work force while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency.
Beth Crowell was proud to work for the Internal Revenue Service.
She had spent much of her career as an accountant for large corporations, gaining intimate knowledge about how they do — and sometimes don’t — pay the taxes they owe. Working for the I.R.S. in Colorado, she hoped to put her skills to a new use. She wanted to help collect more money for the federal government.
Not long after joining last July, she had her chance. Ms. Crowell, 64, joined a team that had started an audit of a company earning roughly $3 billion a year. The I.R.S. had never examined the firm before, Ms. Crowell said, because the agency hadn’t had enough employees with the skills for such complex cases. “They’re a large multinational company, and it is not a normal thing to not have been examined,” she said, declining to name the firm.
By hiring Ms. Crowell and thousands of other experienced tax professionals like her last year, the I.R.S. was trying to fill those gaps and rebuild its ability to enforce tax laws after years of decay. The effort was expected to help the United States recoup billions in additional tax revenue.
Then the layoffs started. With Trump administration targeting recent hires across the government, the terminations hit particularly hard in Ms. Crowell’s division, large business and international. Of the more than 7,000 people laid off from the I.R.S. so far, roughly half worked in her department.
As a result, the I.R.S. may struggle even more with its basic mission of collecting taxes. Work-intensive investigations into large businesses and rich Americans could decline, a drop in enforcement that would add to the deficit even as Elon...
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That's rich.
What else would you expect from the slimes
Yeah, it certainly wasn’t political enough when it went after conservative groups nor when it leaked the confidential returns of various adversaries of the deep state or of the democrat machine.
I don’t think all the IRS agents are altruistic. I believe many of them suffer from being bullied as kids and see the IRS as a way to get back.
If the woman outlined in the story was any good at corporate accounting, she would have never gone to the IRS. I know a bunch of corporate accountants, auditors, and comptrollers—and none of them would want to work for the government. There is no joy there…and certainly, they were making more money.
The IRS has a role. They need to get back to it.
The New York Slimes continues to propagate slime ... what a surprise
“ while trying to turn the I.R.S. into a more political agency.“
That’s a good one too.
They told us the additional 87,000 agents were needed to go after the billionairs.Now whom amount us believed that?
lol
We’re still waiting for our refund.
We’re happy to wait.
MAGA is worth it.
yeah they get paid a fortune in the private sector.
Why go to govt?
Accounting is following the rules. AI should be able to do most audits
“There is no joy there”
In accounting? LOL
Excellent point.
AI is ideal for figuring out complex systems with defined rules.
Someone call Lois Lerner.
If you apply it to the new year, you make this year easier and you don’t have to wait on a refund.
Short of eliminating W-2 income taxes it should take a postcard to do them.
I know a person who went to work there because he saw it as a securge job where those who hated him and got him fired because of his consevative views coouldn't touch him. His mistake was not realizing he couldn't hide his conservative views long enough to pass probation working around people even worse than public school people.
They figured out he was conservative and fired him over a petty disagreement 3 days before probation was over. He doesn't like them very much. So, yeah, you're pretty much correct. Cornered animals are very dangeroys.
Accounting is as much an art as it is a science. The "rules" are filled with judgement calls. AI can help but it will not replace the ultimate judgement of accountants when preparing reports for the public or the IRS.
On the income tax front, I use it to get to quick answers and cut down my research time. However, it still brings me wrong answers and is not reliable enough to keep me from using it to find the reliable source documents.
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