Tight Job Market Sees IRS Facing Uphill Battle to Hire 87,000 Staff
The Internal Revenue Service’s plan to massively expand its staff has become more difficult with the tight U.S. labor market.
The Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” gave the IRS $80 billion over ten years to boost its personnel in order to collect more in unpaid taxes and upgrade its computer systems. The bill also sought to invest in climate change programs and expand Obamacare.
Biden’s Treasury Department proposed last year to increase the size of the agency by 86,852 employees by 2031, to almost double the current IRS workforce that sits nearly at 79,000, although some of the new hires will replace retirees….