JUST THE NEWS The IRS is planning to lay off thousands of probationary workers during tax filing season, according to an Associated Press report citing sources familiar with the situation.
The report did not indicated exactly how many would be laid off.
The news of the layoffs comes after Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency reportedly began examining the IRS to find waste, fraud and tax dollar savings.
The Trump administration has focused agency staffing cuts on probationary employees who haven’t received civil service protection.
Make sure you get their guns back!
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Be better if it was all 80,000 that Biden hired, but it’s a start.
And what is this “probationary” bullshit that the permanent government does? How long does it last? Is that the only time the leeches can be fired at will? Are they doing background checks to make sure that they don’t hire conservatives by mistake?
With almost everyone filing electronically now, how many employees do you seriously need?
get rid of the irs badge-******* first
I come at this issue differently from probably everyone here. I want tax cheats held accountable, exposed, and punished.
Sure, there are political hacks in ALL phases of government, there are also incompetents, and a fair share of the lazy, and maybe what I want is unobtainable. But I pay a shitload of taxes, a crazy amount, and in a perfect world all people would pay the exact amount they should, but too many people are getting away with underreporting or even no reporting, and it’s not fair to honest folk like myself who begrudgingly pay because I don’t want to end up in prison.
What is the perfect amount of IRS workers necessary? I don’t know, but axing everyone because we don’t like the IRS is not the answer. A big part of DOGE is going in, getting your hands dirty, and figuring out the right amount of employees necessary to get the job done.
Taxation is theft.
Fair, sales, tariff, or vat tax…..
Not the current income or property taxes.
@Rich Taylor…
“I want tax cheats held accountable, exposed, and punished.”
I completely agree with you. My problem is with the ridiculously complicated tax code which makes every tax filer a potential criminal who must prove his innocence. It also means that the IRS needs to hire way too many drones and train them in the arcane ways of compliance as well as wasting time and money on arbitration.
The government should be able to get its pound of flesh much more efficiently and cheaply, without undue harassment of taxpayers. If PDT is serious about pruning the IRS, he needs to get to the roots, not just the leaves.
flush the lawyer-****** tax laws, & the ****** assholes writing them
A probationary period for a first time Fed employee is typically 1 year. At the end of that year the employee can be accepted as a permanent employee, or let go for whatever reason. Some news outlets are calling them “fired” when the proper term would be “not retained” or ” let go”. No cause needs to be given for “probies” let go.
@Ed357
NO VAT TAX!
Repeal the 16th (and the 17th) and have each Congressional district pay 1/438th of the cost of the FedGov – in fact repeal that law that sets the limit at 438 and go back to 1 Congress Critter per 75,000 peeps – we’d end up with about 4,380 districts each paying the same share.
It would be “fair.”
It would end racial gerrymandering.
It would eliminate the need for the IRS.
Still retain tariffs, excises, &c. (maybe even the VAT).
There would be a hue and a cry every time some maggot mentioned expanding the FedGov.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Thirdtwin’s comment reminded me, I think it was Ron Paul, when he was running for president. He wanted the tax code abolished and replaced by filers being able to use a 3 x 5 card-size form that could be filled out in minutes, a standard (generous) deduction for all with a flat tax. What could be simpler, and with this method, the IRS could reduce itself by two-thirds.
Rich,
Can’t speak to Rom Paul, but Steve Forbes was on to something along those lines. Unlike the Hillary Clinton one-pager: How much did you make. Send it in.