The IRS is drafting plans to cut its workforce by as much as half through a mix of layoffs, attrition and incentivized ...

The IRS is on its third Commissioner in just over a month. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent announced that IRS Chief Operating Officer Melanie Krause will become acting IRS Commissioner ...

After all, why would the IRS examine tax returns that you file in your golden years? And generally, you would be right. Over the past few years, the IRS has been auditing significantly less than 1 ...

We’re continuing to follow reports that the Donald Trump administration has fired more than 6,000 IRS workers, many of them in collections and enforcement. The administration said it’s doing ...

More than half of these employees — over 3,500 — are expected to be from just one division at the IRS, according to text of an email obtained by CBS News and shared by an IRS employee.

Send emails with the IRS logo and official language but with noticeable spelling or grammar mistakes. These emails often contain links to fake websites urging you to update your IRS e-filing.

The IRS has a criminal investigation division of 3,000 people that serves as the agency's law enforcement arm and includes about 2,100 special agents who investigate financial crimes like tax ...

The presence of Elon Musk's cost-cutting task force, the Department of Government Efficiency, at the IRS is sparking fresh concerns from Democratic lawmakers about the safety of taxpayer ...

A reduction in force of tens of thousands of employees would render the IRS “dysfunctional,” said John Koskinen, a former IRS commissioner. The federal tax collector employs roughly 90,000 ...

The Trump administration's Treasury Department is in the midst of weighing a "wide range" of possibilities to streamline the Internal Revenue Service amid reports up to half of the IRS staff could ...

Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in ...