| The 87,000 additional auditors is a misleading interpretation [1] Summary:
- IRS used to have over 100,000 employees a decade back. This number has fallen due to funding cuts etc to less than 78,000 today. - The employees are not just auditors - they are support people for tax filing, IT etc. - There will be further employee attrition over the next decade that would need to be backfilled. - What Congress has given them is funding to cover hiring of 87,000 employees over the next decade. This will cover backfill for employee attrition + new employees that will include auditors, enhanced support, IT etc. The total growth (again over the next decade) is expected to be 20-30,000 with will bring the IRS back to last decade levels. TL;DR: IRS isn't going out and hiring 87,000 new (and in some misleading reports, gun toting) agents tomorrow and doubling their workforce. Instead, they are bringing their employee count (auditors and others) back to last decade levels and also replacing departing employees. 1. https://time.com/6204928/irs-87000-agents-factcheck-biden/ |
Is that why they posted this job description, and then deleted it?
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Good luck in what's to come, friend. I hope you're ready :)