November 7, 2025 - December 17, 2025 · TOPICS · Tax · IRS Practice & Procedure · The IRS sent layoff notices to almost 1,400 employees, adding to the losses at the agency where 25% of staff had left as of May, according to a court document filed earlier this ...

In July 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the federal court’s prohibition on covered agencies · implementing Agency RIF and Reorganization Plans and issuing or executing RIF notices. Currently, it is unclear whether any terminated probationary employees called back to work will · be subject to a large-scale RIF. The IRS’s various separation efforts and the number of

October 24, 2025 - Treasury CIO and DOGE representative Sam Corcos defended IRS layoffs as “painful” but necessary to reboot the agency’s stalled IT modernization efforts. Jory Heckman@jheckmanWFED · October 21, 2025 6:52 pm · 7 min read · The IRS, after already losing about a quarter of its workforce so far this year, is one of the Trump administration’s biggest targets for layoffs.

August 28, 2025 - Congressman Suozzi also hosted ... March of 2025. One of the featured speakers was a Long Island woman who was laid off from the IRS under the DOGE plan. Not only was she processing backlog cases—collecting money for the federal government—all the way back to 2022, but she was also 7 months pregnant, dependent on the health insurance she received from her employer. Congressman Suozzi is applauding the news that the IRS is planning to halt its layoff program and ...

July 23, 2025 - As part of the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the size of the federal government’s workforce, the administration in January offered a DRP, which allowed federal employees to resign with pay through Sept. 30, 2025, or later, if ...

3 weeks ago - IRS IT employees get 'directed reassignment' 1% pay raise for 2026 · Workforce · The State Department says laid-off Foreign Service officers will be officially separated from the agency on Dec. 5 — once it fixes some “administrative ...

April 15, 2025 - Combined, the figures mean the IRS could lose significant portion of its workforce just as the 2025 tax filing season draws to a close Tuesday night.

August 8, 2025 - Most government agencies, including ... gets started on its goals. In the first few months of 2025, there have been widespread resignations and layoffs in the agency amid an active 2025 filing season....

3 days ago - Impacted employees say they have few details about what work they’ll be doing, and have been told by the agency to instead “focus on completing an orderly transition of your current work.” The notice they received last week states that they will no longer be working on IRS IT projects.

August 22, 2025 - Add Axios on Google · IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C. Photo: J. David Ake/Getty Images · The Internal Revenue Service has called off layoffs and plans to offer jobs back to some employees who took the so-called fork in the road, as the ...

October 15, 2025 - IRS employees say layoffs put additional stress on an already beleaguered agency that's looking to hire and train new hires ahead of the filing season. Jory Heckman@jheckmanWFED · October 14, 2025 6:13 pm · 6 min read · The IRS, midway through preparations for next year’s filing season, is once again facing staffing cuts, now that the Trump administration has sent layoff notices across the federal workforce.

August 27, 2025 - These layoffs were part of a broader ... agenda to downsize the federal workforce. Over the first half of 2025, the agency reduced its force from 100,000 to 60,000 employees....

Statement by Charles Rettig, Former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service (March 4, 2025) "Randomly terminating up to 50% of the IRS workforce will adversely impact efforts of tens of millions of Americans to receive guidance and relevant ...

May 14, 2025 - As many as 5,000 IRS employees reportedly accepted the Trump administration’s “ · fork-in-the-road” deferred resignation offer, initially provided earlier this year. Most of those workers were told to work until May 15, because the agency ...

New legal filings detail the impact of the reductions in force at the tax agency.

August 22, 2025 - August 21, 2025 · IRS · RIFs · By Natalie Alms and Eric Katz · Updated Aug. 22 at 8:22 a.m. The Internal Revenue Service is no longer planning to pursue layoffs as it seeks to rebuild parts of its workforce.

February 19, 2025 - The terminations will target relatively recent hires at the I.R.S., which the Biden administration had attempted to revitalize.

November 7, 2025 - In a previous document filed by Treasury in the lawsuit being heard in the Northern District of California, officials said 1,446 Treasury employees would be laid off. The IRS provided specifics of those layoffs on Tuesday, saying 1,399 of those ...

If the IRS proceeds with plans for an ill-advised mass layoff, there are certain steps under the collective bargaining agreement that must be followed to mitigate the impact on employees, according to a letter NTEU National President Doreen Greenwald sent Friday to IRS leadership.

April 6, 2025 - The agency had previously drawn up plans to cut roughly 18% to 20% of the 100,000-person workforce by the middle of May. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters, Feb. 13, 2025, in Washington, D.C.