The Trump administration’s aim to slash of thousands of jobs from the IRS enforcement arm ramps up the pressure on the agency’s longstanding efforts to modernize its decades-old systems.
Elon Musk’s advisers to the administration are pushing the IRS to cut 18,141 jobs, with the largest reduction in enforcement workers. That number includes the roughly 12,000 employees already terminated as part of the new-hire layoffs and those who took a deferred resignation offer. The goal is to half the agency workforce, previously at 100,000 employees, by the end of the year.
At the same time, the Treasury Department said ...