The New York Times is reporting that over 20,000 IRS employees signed up to take DOGE’s offer for them to resign. Trump has always hated paying his fair share of taxes, and now he is in a position to destroy the IRS itself, from within. This move will weaken the IRS’s ability to collect revenue, investigate fraud and sue tax cheats for years to come.
The agency is already understaffed and struggling to audit a lot of crypto bros, who use fraud and every creative loophole available to pay pittance in taxes on their record bounties of income from the crypto mines. And tax payers are already complaining about waiting longer than expected for their refunds, while inflationary prices and tariffs are taking more and more of their paychecks and almost no disposable income left to spare to balance their household budgets.
The I.R.S. had about 100,000 employees before President Trump took office. Roughly 5,000 employees have resigned since January, and an additional 7,000 probationary employees were laid off, though those firings have been contested in court. If those layoffs take effect, the agency would be on track to lose about a third of its work force this year.
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Losing a third of I.R.S. staff — with remaining employees bracing for further layoffs and funding cuts — is
expected to decrease the amount of revenue the federal government is able to collect. The cuts have already caused the I.R.S. to abandon some audits, current and former employees said, and taxpayers may feel more emboldened to try and avoid paying taxes if the I.R.S. is diminished.
