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Although there are no Information Technology positions currently listed on the IRS jobs website, Federal News Network is reporting that the nation’s tax collector plans to bring in some permanent tech employees. Soon.
The IRS tech shop is back in hiring mode, after losing more than 40% of its workforce under the Trump administration.
At an IRS IT all-hands meeting earlier this month, Chief Information Officer Kaschit Pandya told staff that his office plans to hire up to 175 additional technical employees.
FNN goes on to remind readers that 1,200 IRS IT people were shuffled into key filing season, frontline roles in December, a hopefully temporary stint after which who knows what will happen. One person inside the IRS made it sound pretty unlikely the temporary staff will get shuffled back to where they were hired to be:
Another individual familiar with the IRS staffing shakeup said employees on 120-day details are currently enrolled in eight hours of daily training for the next few months. These employees, the individual said, must remain on camera for the duration of these virtual training sessions, and if they turn off their cameras, they’ll get a message to turn them back on.
“This whole experience has been so gut-wrenching. We honestly don’t think they will stop at four months — because what’s the point of training someone for four months to not have them do the work they were trained for,” the individual said.
Information Technology has 7,135 people as of October 2025, down from 8,504 in October of 2024, according to the TIGTA readiness report released this past January [PDF].
There are, as of publication time, just six IRS positions listed on USAJobs: Law Clerk (Tax) – Honors Attorney Program (2026), Deputy Associate Chief Counsel (Guidance), Income Tax and Accounting Division, Chief Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, Operations Coordinator, and Accounts Management Field Director. If you are eager to run to the comment section and say AcKsHuALLLLyYY that’s five jobs you innumerate morons, you’ll note that the law clerk job is posted twice as one is GS-11 and the other is GS-12.
We’ll keep an eye on the IRS jobs site and let you know if we spot any roles popping up.
