The IRS is reevaluating how to gauge the more than 150 taxpayer service improvement projects it had been pursuing before staffing and budget cuts this year.

Opinion: Plante Moran's Brett Bissonnette says that encouraging e-filing, expanding tax services, and showing some kindness can help tax practitioners navigate the large staffing reductions in the IRS' Taxpayer Services Division.

The IRS has already lost more than 26,000 employees this year—and the administration’s latest budget proposal would shrink the agency even further. Meanwhile, more than half of the Inflation Reduction Act’s original IRS funding has been clawed back through congressional rescissions.

Following over 260,000 federal job losses since January, new budget plans propose eliminating an additional 107,000 roles.

The Trump administration set out to cut thousands of jobs at the IRS this year, aided by Elon Musk’s Department ... “Now, maybe the cuts to staffing alone may not have had a huge impact on the filing season if all else held equal,” said Alex ...

The budget bill championed by Trump could complicate next year’s tax filing season after the IRS lost one-quarter of its employees through staffing cuts. That's what an independent watchdog says ...