The Trump administration is intending to make cuts to the office of the National Taxpayer Advocate (NTA) — its third announced staffing reduction at the Internal Revenue Service that comes amid ...

IRS leadership, she said, has assured the Taxpayer Advocate Service during the past 18 months that reducing the time to handle ID theft cases is a top priority.

According to an IRS data book, the agency employed about 15,500 customer service workers in 2021. The workforce has since grown to about 20,000, as of late 2023, the most recent figures available.

The key office reports to Congress about IRS service levels and advocates individual taxpayer cases to the IRS. In response to a question from The Hill about reductions to the workforce of the NTA ...

Senate Democrats are also worried about the cuts hampering the IRS’s ability to function properly during the upcoming tax season, prompting 18 Democrats to send a letter to the Treasury ...

IRS leaders expect about 15,000 employees to use the system including taxpayer resolution representatives, customer service, revenue officers, revenue agents, appeals officers, and estate and gift ...

A replacement for a decades-old case management system used by the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service is coming this summer, a move that the independent body believes will make its work with customers ...

Analyzing potential economic consequences of DOGE cuts The Internal Revenue Service's acting chief counsel, William Paul, has been removed from his role at the agency and replaced by Andrew De ...

Sen. Joni Ertz wrote a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, urging the IRS to claw back up to $46 million in unpaid taxes from its workforce “before going after private citizens.&#8221… ...