The IRS plans to hire 3,700 employees to help drive its efforts targeting large businesses and complex partnerships.
Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act sets aside tens of billions of dollars for the IRS to increase enforcement against tax evasion. Friday’s announcement follows agency news last week that it would review 75 of its largest U.S. partners by the end of September.
The new positions, which will be created at more than 250 locations, will help strengthen the IRS’s compliance efforts for high earners, partnerships, large corporations and sponsors, the IRS said in a statement. Press release.
“This next wave of hiring will help the IRS add critical talent, such as tax accountants, to help reverse a decade of audits of wealthy individuals as well as complex partnerships and corporations,” IRS Commissioner Danny Wayfair said in a press release. declining situation.”
The agency is seeking specialized technical positions focused on auditing, the release said.
In August, Werfel said the IRS was working to increase its full-time workforce to 90,000 employees while also grappling with hiring new employees and reducing attrition.
The latest hiring announcements come as Warfel is urging Congress not to make future budget cuts as Republican lawmakers threaten to cut annual funding for the Internal Revenue Service.
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