New York Times is reporting that a few thousand newish IRS employees are getting laid off starting tomorrow:
The Internal Revenue Service will begin laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s push to downsize the federal work force, three people familiar with the agency’s plans said.
The terminations will target relatively recent hires at the I.R.S., which the Biden administration had attempted to revitalize with a surge of funding and new staff, the people said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
According to what NYT was told, managers told some employees to report to the office with their work-issued property in hand. “Under an executive order, I.R.S. has been directed to terminate probationary employees who were not deemed critical to filing season,” said one email reviewed by NYT. “We don’t have many details that we are permitted to share, but this is all tied to compliance with the executive order.”
Well at least they didn’t get surprised with ominous Business Update meetings on their calendars.
Earlier:
The IRS was just starting to show some progress, but it looks like we’re heading back to the bad old days of five or six years ago with computers spitting out notices and penalty assessments with no one to answer the phone. And I guess we can forget about enforcement efforts on the fraudsters with the Employee Retention Credit.
The ERC fraudsters are Trump’s friends. Billionaires can put whatever they want on their tax returns now.