(VOR News) – According to two people familiar with the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) plans, the agency is getting ready to fire thousands of probationary employees during the busiest time of the tax season.

This information has been reported by two people. These cuts might happen as early as next week, depending on how likely they are.

Importantly, this new development comes at a time when the Trump administration has been IRS increasing its attempts to reduce the number of government employees.

Agencies have been directed to fire almost all probationary staff members who have not yet received protection under the civil service structure as part of these efforts. This order requires them to resign from their position.

It’s unclear how many IRS staff this will affect.

Previously, the government had announced that it would establish a “deferred resignation program” that would enable buyouts for almost all federal employees.

Employee resignations would have to be submitted in IRS advance under this initiative. The goal of this effort was to reduce the number of government employees as quickly as possible.

According to government officials, workers who accept the offer will be allowed to leave their jobs while still getting paid until September 30. This information was released by the government-employed authorities. The offer and the program were due on February 6.

But Internal Revenue Service (IRS) workers just learnt that they will not be able to accept a Trump administration offer of termination until after the tax filing deadline. IRS employees just received a letter that contained this information.

This information was provided to them in the letter. Personnel actively involved in the 2025 tax season were given access to this information. Particularly with regard to the number of workers who would be affected by the announcement of layoffs, the situation is not entirely understood.

The Internal Revenue Service expects more than 140 million tax returns to be filed by the April 15th deadline, with the 2025 tax season formally beginning on January 27th. Tax returns must be submitted by April 15th.

Under the Democratic Inflation Reduction Act, Vice President Joe Biden’s administration made significant investments in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). These investments were made in accordance with the law.

The legislation also calls for the installation of contemporary technology to revamp the tax collection agency and promises to hire tens of thousands of new staff to assist customer service and enforcement.

The IRS allocated $80 billion to these investments via a financial infusion.

As part of their plan to drastically cut spending and rearrange the government’s priorities, billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency have suggested that the US “delete entire agencies” from the federal government.

The Republicans have been successful in reclaiming those funds. This suggestion was made as part of their plan to rearrange the government’s priorities. This plan is part of a larger effort to rearrange the government’s priorities.

In an effort to weaken DOGE’s goals, elected authorities are working to oppose and act against them. In a lawsuit filed Thursday, the attorneys general of fourteen different states questioned the defendant’s IRS ability to access private government information and to have “virtually unchecked power.”

The United States District Court’s Eastern District of California received the complaint. On Thursday, the case was turned in.

According to the case filed in federal court in Washington, only an official nominated and authorised by the Senate is authorised to carry out the actions Musk conducted while controlling DOGE. The only official with authority to carry out these activities is this one.

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SOURCE: AP