IRS cutting its workforce by 25%, eliminating agency's civil rights office
Fox News ^ | 04/05/2025 | Louis Casiano
Posted on 04/05/2025 7:34:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The layoffs come as the Trump administration continues to shrink the size of the federal workforce through the Department of Government Efficiency
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will slash its workforce by at least 25% beginning Friday with layoffs as the Trump administration continues to shrink the size of the federal government.
In addition to the layoffs, the agency said in a letter to employees that it is eliminating its Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, which is responsible for protecting taxpayers from discrimination, audits and investigations.
The remaining employees in the division will be transferred to other departments.
"In a stark contrast to the previous administration’s wildly unpopular plan to hire thousands of additional IRS agents, President Trump is focused on saving tax dollars, eliminating bloat, axing useless DEI offices, and increasing the agency’s efficiency," White House spokesperson Liz Huston said to Fox News Digital.
"This action is being taken to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the IRS in accordance with agency priorities and the Workforce Optimization Initiative outlined in a recent Executive Order," the letter states, referring to President Donald Trump's executive order directing the Department of Government Efficiency to get rid of wasteful spending.
The agency said it was approved to offer Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA) and Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment (VSIP). Information about those programs will be shared with employees at a later date, the message said.
"This calendar year to date, approximately 5% of this office left through the Deferred Resignation Program and attrition, An additional 75% of the office will be reduced through a RIF (Reduction in Force)."
A Treasury Department spokesperson told Fox News that the reductions are part of, and driven by, "process improvements and technological innovations that will allow the IRS to collect revenue and serve taxpayers more effectively."
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KEYWORDS: irs; layoffs
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1 posted on 04/05/2025 7:34:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
“...it is eliminating its Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, which is responsible for protecting taxpayers from discrimination, audits and investigations.”
Lois Lerner comes to mind
2 posted on 04/05/2025 7:39:35 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: SeekAndFind
I suggest they use aptitude tests (aka IQ tests) for ranking candidates applying for professional federal civil service jobs in the future. They used to have such tests but, as I understand it, eliminated them starting sometime in the 1970’s because too many “disadvantaged” applicants couldn’t succeed at getting hired.
I blame the absence of such screening tests for the huge number of essentially STUPID federal civil service employees, from all racial/ethnic groups, that I encounter when conducting business with the federal government.
3 posted on 04/05/2025 7:43:29 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
To: House Atreides
We already have a civil rights office at the DOJ!! It makes me nauseous that there is absolutely NO THOUGHT that this IS NOT their money!!!
4 posted on 04/05/2025 7:46:01 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
To: SeekAndFind
Clean out the IRS armory.
Take away all their rifles, other firearms, ammunition and all of their tactical gear.
fire all their tactical/SWAT teams and related management or transfer them all to the military if they are qualified.
5 posted on 04/05/2025 7:52:24 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Art Of Government: Taking Money From One Group And Giving It To Another - Voltaire)
To: SeekAndFind
Why does the IRS have a Civil Rights office?
I understand one for the justice department but the tax collectors?
6 posted on 04/05/2025 8:08:51 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: SeekAndFind
The IRS needs a MAGA dose of the “E” of DOGE.
I admit to being a Luddite a.k.a. paper form filer.
Ordered all the paper forms I needed on January 23.
By early March I had given up on receiving them so picked up most of what I needed at the local IRS office.
Mailed my paper forms on April 1 (no Fooling!)
FINALLY received the thick envelope of requested paper forms on April 3.
A little late—straight into the circular file.
7 posted on 04/05/2025 8:10:36 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
To: lightman
You can print all forms right off the irs.gov website and never leave home.
8 posted on 04/05/2025 8:16:12 PM PDT by chuck allen
To: chuck allen
Yup...making me burn my toner, paper, and electricity.
“Tax-shifting” by any other name would smell as foul.
BTW I remember the days when the 1040 would arrive promptly on December 26. Happy Grinchmass!
9 posted on 04/05/2025 8:40:19 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
To: Iron Munro
Clean out the IRS armory.
Take away all their rifles, other firearms, ammunition and all of their tactical gear.
fire all their tactical/SWAT teams and related management or transfer them all to the military if they are qualified.
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I have no knowledge of the size, scope, and mission of this armory department but it appears to me to be totally unnecessary. Aren’t there other Federal agencies responsible for interventions that require weaponry? I thought so.
10 posted on 04/05/2025 8:47:14 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (President Trump is America's long-awaited SUPREME Commander in Chief. Deus Vult!)
To: SeekAndFind
Its very real. Contracts are also being cancelled there hand over fist. The explosive lib pipe dream of expanding this is over.
To: SeekAndFind
Excellent! The IRS needed to be radically slashed. I dunno if a 25% cut is the right number or if it needs to be even more but this is clearly a step in the right direction.
12 posted on 04/06/2025 1:04:24 AM PDT by FLT-bird
To: SeekAndFind
Some may join “Tariff collection Agency”.
There is a need over there!
13 posted on 04/06/2025 3:53:33 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
To: Iron Munro
why, like the post office is the IRS armed to the teeth, why?
To: SeekAndFind
That include the 80,000 they wanted to hire?
15 posted on 04/06/2025 4:24:04 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
To: SeekAndFind
And we were wondering who was going pick our crops and clean our hotels and houses, now we know.
16 posted on 04/06/2025 5:12:19 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: lightman
I believe the backlog for processing some of the difficult filings is about 2 years. I missed a w-2 from my company after i retired last year haven’t heard a peep. It was only for a couple hundred dollars so it probably won’t impact the filing but still. Never had to wait that long for that type of mistake.
17 posted on 04/06/2025 6:04:34 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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