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IRS commissioner expects to see enforcement hiring to ‘ramp up’ in coming months

The Internal Revenue Service is putting its multi-billion-dollar modernization fund to good use by restoring training for its employees and replacing one…

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Alex Culbertson

If a tax law perplexes the public, it also makes life difficult for the IRS

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The IRS hasn’t quite reached a state of total zero trust on its networks, but it’s close

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IRS Unannounced Visits

IRS hiring its way to 90,000-employee workforce for first time in decade

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel says the IRS is close to reaching its largest workforce in more than a decade, and rolling out new technology to reduce call…

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IRS Upgrade

The IRS appears to have counted out some taxpayers a bit too soon

In today’s Federal Newscast, an IRS watchdog finds the agency incorrectly flagged tens of thousands of taxpayers as deceased.

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IRS to eliminate ‘oceans’ of paper by digitizing all new tax returns by 2025

The IRS is dipping into its multi-year modernization funds to digitally process all the tax returns it receives by 2025 — a major shift for an agency that still relies heavily on paper forms.

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