The plan’s promised enhancements include improving claims submittal and processing and communication with whistleblowers.

Employees can still submit hardship-based telework requests, but approvals must come from the agency’s leadership or its ...

An Internal Revenue Office (IRS) in Houston was forced to shut its doors in front of hundreds of taxpayers waiting to file their taxes due to a fight between two individuals in line, according to ...

As of May 2025, the IRS had lost more than 25% of its mission-critical enforcement staff, including auditors who handle complex high-wealth cases. As a result, operational problems abound in the ...

Suzanne Blake is a Newsweek reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting on consumer and social trends, spanning from retail to restaurants and beyond. She is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill and ...

The Internal Revenue Service ordered most of its approximately 20,000 customer service employees back to the office this week, ending a long era of hybrid and remote work. There was just one problem: ...

IRS deploys Salesforce AI agents across divisions after massive staffing reductions, aiming to help overworked staff process requests faster and more efficiently.

Merging the IRS office that regulates credentialed tax practitioners with another office that deals with uncredentialed return preparers would confuse the public and could harm the tax system, the ...

The IRS Tax Assistance Center in Jamestown is scheduled to re-open next week. The location closed earlier this year without notice. P-J photo by Jimmy McCarthy Concerns regarding the unannounced ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- It's tax day - and the clock is ticking if you still need to file. There was a chaotic scene at the IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center on South Gessner in southwest Houston this ...

HOUSTON – The Internal Revenue Service Taxpayer Assistance Center in southwest Houston tells KPRC 2 it will not stay open late Monday, despite stranding hundreds of taxpayers over the weekend with an ...