IRS will cut 25% of its employees, eliminating its civil rights office

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/04/irs-will-cut-25-its-employees-eliminating-its-civil-rights-office/

IRS will cut 25% of its employees, eliminating its civil rights office
The tax agency began telling employees about the coming reduction in emails sent Friday.
April 4, 2025 at 5:38 p.m. EDT
By Jacob Bogage and Shannon Najmabadi

The Internal Revenue Service plans to eliminate 20,000 jobs — nearly a quarter of its workforce — in layoffs starting Friday, as part of the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, according to records obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the plans.

The agency said it would eliminate its Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, firing roughly 130 employees from a division responsible for protecting taxpayers from discrimination in the tax code, audits and investigations. The remaining employees there will be transferred to other departments.

The reduction in force was expected and comes as the agency has already lost several executives and thousands of employees, including agents who audit tax returns, during tax season. It’s also part of a broader plan from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team, the U.S. DOGE Service, to shrink the federal government.

The downsizing has raised concerns among tax officials that the government could see a sharp drop in tax revenue this year as tax cheats see opportunities to take advantage of the diminished IRS.

Treasury Department and IRS officials last month projected that tax receipts would show a more than 10 percent decrease by the April 15 filing deadline, compared with the same period in 2024, The Post reported. That would amount to more than $500 billion in lost federal revenue.

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1. Great move, musk/trump, just as tax returns are about to come floodinng in.

Some real bozos in this admin.

First order of business should be...collect the money, idiots.

Then you'll have enough for your tax cuts to billionaires and big corps.