According to two sources familiar with the agency's plans, the cuts could occur as soon as next week in the middle of a wave of mass layoffs at the governmental level.
The Internal Tax Service of the United States Treasury will fire thousands of workers in the proof period in the middle of the tax season, according to two sources familiar with the agency's plans. The cuts could happen as soon as next week.
This occurs while the government of President Donald Trump intensified the efforts to reduce the size of the Federal Labor Force, ordering the agencies to fire almost all employees in the trial period who had not yet obtained protection of the civil service.
It is not clear how many internal tax service workers (IRS) will be affected. Previously, the Government announced a plan to offer liquidation packages to almost all federal employees through a “deferred resignation program” to quickly reduce the government's workforce. The deadline of the program was on February 6, and government officials said that employees they accept will be able to stop working while they continue to receive a salary until September 30.
However, IRS employees involved in the tax season of 2025 were informed that they will not be allowed to accept an offer of voluntary renunciation of the Trump government until after the deadline for submitting taxes, according to a letter recently sent To IRS employees.
It is not clear how many workers will be affected by the announcement of layoffs. The representatives of the Treasury and IRS department did not respond to the requests for comments from The Associated Press.
January 27 was the official starting date of the tax season of 2025, and the IRS expects more than 140 million tax statements to be submitted before the deadline of April 15. The government of former president Joe Biden invested strongly in the IRS through an injection of funds of 80 billion dollars in the law to reduce the inflation of the Democrats, which included plans to hire tens of thousands of new employees to help with Customer service and the application of the law, as well as new technology to update the tax collection agency.
Republicans have succeeded in recovering that money, and billionaire Elon Musk and his government efficiency department have requested that the United States “eliminate entire agencies” from the federal government as part of their plan to radically cut expense and restructure their priorities.
Elected officials are trying to fight Doge's plans. The general prosecutors of 14 states challenged the authority to access sensitive government data and exercise “practically without control” in a lawsuit filed on Thursday.
The lawsuit, presented in a federal court in Washington DC states that the actions taken by Musk at the head of Doge can only be made by a nominated and confirmed official by the Senate. It mentions constitutional provisions that delineate the powers of Congress and the President.