Cutting IRS staffing in half over the next 10 months would mean less help and longer waits for many US taxpayers and increase the risk that wealthy tax cheats escape paying what they owe.
It also would leave the Internal Revenue Service with its smallest workforce since at least the 1960s, according to official IRS data.
The Trump administration plans to cut the number of IRS employees in half by the end of the year, Bloomberg Tax reported Tuesday. But gutting the workforce so dramatically and so quickly could mean slower refunds and processing of returns for many Americans, ...