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IRS “Team C” Reassignments: Your Rights When Your Agency Details You
IRS details and reassignments are raising hard questions for mid-career federal employees. Imagine you are a GS-13, 14, or 15. The IRS pulls you out of your job, places you on a de...
D.C. Circuit: IRS Data-Sharing With ICE "Indisputably Contravenes" Federal Tax Privacy Law
The lawsuit filed to keep DOGE out of IRS taxpayer data just won at the D.C. Circuit. On September 8, 2026, a unanimous panel in Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS, No. 26-5006 (D.C...
IRS Audit Collections Fell 35% the Year It Lost a Quarter of Its Audit Staff, Watchdog Finds
IRS audit collections fell 35 percent last year, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, in the same year the agency lost roughly 27 p...
Federal Judge Orders DOGE to Turn Over IRS Taxpayer-Data Communications by September 14
DOGE must turn over its internal communications about the IRS taxpayer-data sharing deal by September 14 — a federal judge has ordered it. After more than a year in which DOGE’s ro...
The Man Who Ran the IRS Says the Bill for DOGE's Cuts Hasn't Come Due Yet
The IRS workforce has fallen from about 100,000 employees to an expected 74,000 by year's end after DOGE's cuts — and the man who ran the agency says the bill has not come due yet....
The IRS Restored Union Email for Managers and Left It Blocked for Bargaining Unit Employees
Your right to a union representative in a federal adverse action case is only as good as your ability to reach that representative — and at the IRS, Government Executive reports, t...
IRS Workforce Cuts and “Better Results” Claims
Recent testimony to the Senate claimed the IRS delivered its “most successful filing season in history” despite a 27% reduction in staff. For federal employees, that statement dese...
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