Staffing cuts.
After the Trump administration’s initial move to freeze hiring at the IRS, the agency has been hit with staffing cuts that show no signs of slowing. IRS staffing cuts may total 25,000 workers in the near future, according to Reuters, representing 25% of the agency’s workforce.
While the true extent of staffing cuts is not yet clear, KPMG’s Mary Slonina said the estimates are that 4,000 to 5,000 IRS workers took the “fork-in-the-road” deferred resignation offer. Slonina, speaking on a March 26 KPMG webinar, said that’s on top of the 6,000 to 7,000 probationary employees who were let go via a reduction-in-force. Though a Maryland federal district court judge ordered the reinstatement of those recently hired workers, who typically had been in their roles for less than two years, Slonina explained that most of them were put on administrative leave immediately after being reinstated.
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