IRS

How much training is there for IRS agents facing the threat of physical harm?

A recent audit by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), looked how the IRS deals with threats ad physical harm against IRS agents….

Management

FILE - In this March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. As millions of Americans file their income tax returns, their chances of getting audited by the IRS have rarely been so low. The number of people audited by the IRS last year dropped for the sixth straight year, to just over 1 million. The last time so few people were audited was 2004, when the population was significantly smaller. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Thousands of new highly paid IRS accountants will help ferret out tax cheats

Federal Newscast

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IRS to remain ‘fully operational’ if Congress triggers government shutdown

Government Shutdown

IRS cracks down hard on 1,600 deadbeat millionaires

Federal Newscast

IRS needs to use pay incentives more to keep up with hiring goals, watchdog warns

Hiring/Retention

IRS ends decades’ old policy to combat safety concerns, scammers

Workforce

IRS is standing in the way of Congress’ innovative solution to fight fraud and expand access to capital

Commentary

IRS’s Smith: Be pro-digitization, not anti status-quo when driving innovation

Ask the CIO

FILE - This March 22, 2013 file photo, shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown, nearly 60 percent of its workforce, to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won't be paid. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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GSA’s DiMartini to become top human capital official at IRS

Traci DiMartini, stepping down from her role as chief human capital officer at the General Services Administration, will move to IRS at the end of June.

People

Whose business is customer experience anyway?

Everyone is a customer at some point. And everyone serves customers at some point.

Federal Report

FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. Lawmakers are increasingly looking at boosting the IRS to help pay for infrastructure improvements. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS faces $20B cut from modernization fund under debt ceiling agreement

Congress

The IRS is facing substantial cuts to funds meant to rebuild its workforce and modernize its legacy IT systems over the next decade, as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a first-ever government default.

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