Diana Shaw of Wiley Rein LLP discusses the reduction in workforce at the IRS as detailed in a report by the Treasury ...

The IRS’s criminal division is under scrutiny for poor documentation and oversight of billions in seized crypto assets, a ...

Since October 2013, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has received reports of roughly 736,000 contacts made to taxpayers demanding that they send them cash via prepaid ...

A Treasury watchdog report reveals how inaccurate tax information impacted FAFSA requests, offering a warning to agencies as ...

TIGTA has some suggestions for sharpening the skills of the people doing it, but it can't do anything about this painful reality. The IRS headcount in 2000 was 96,092.

TIGTA touched on one strategy to modernize paper filing, making paper returns readable with barcode scanning, as National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins recently directed the IRS to implement. As ...

TIGTA also said the IRS, despite requirements to do so, did not pass contracts through the Cloud Front Door process. The CFD process serves as the IRS's "on-ramp" to the cloud and is the CMO's ...

TIGTA recommended that the IRS dedicate adequate staffing to separate assignments of answering the phones or working the Accounts Management caseload, to which the IRS agreed. Segregating those duties ...

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says it completed 1,032 investigations that contributed to savings of more than $6.1 billion from April through September of this year. According ...

T he Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has reported that the IRS has seen approximately 11% reduction in workforce, with 11,443 employees affected by March 2025.

While the TIGTA report didn't explain why auditor departures outpaced that of overall cuts at the IRS, the tax agency had made an effort under the Biden administration to hire more auditors in ...

The IRS has been using Login.gov, the single sign-on service housed within the General Services Administration, since 2022. TIGTA recommended that the IRS’s chief information officer be tasked with ...