Trump administration to bring back more than half of IRS employees despite shutdown, warns key funct

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

By Jeff Stein January 15 at 3:59 PM

Tens of thousands of Internal Revenue Service workers will come back to work for tax filing season later this month under the agency’s new emergency plan for the government shutdown, but the agency will remain unable to conduct audits or other key agency functions, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday.

The IRS’s new plan for the shutdown calls for keeping 46,000 IRS employees on the job during filing season, meaning that close to 60 percent of the agency’s workforce will soon work despite the lapse in the agency’s funding. At the start of the government shutdown in late December, fewer than 10,000 IRS workers — about 12 percent of its overall workforce — were kept on the job.

The agency will continue to not perform audits during the shutdown, although the IRS has three years to audit a tax return after it is filed. Walk-in taxpayer assistance centers are also expected to remain closed.

The vast majority of these workers are not expected to be paid during the shutdown, though Congress has signaled its intent to issue backpay after the shutdown is over.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/15/irs-bring-back-more-than-half-workforce-despite-shutdown-warns-key-functions-will-go-unfulfilled/

[beachbum bob]

1. lol, forcing IRS workers back to work UNPAID....I would be fearful if I was a GOP politician

[Colorado Liberal]

2. All about Drumpf's approval rating

They know that his approval rating will tank if people are kept waiting for their refunds come February, so they change the rules of the shutdown to prevent it. It's all about protecting wittle Donnie's ego.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. The traitor must be removed, now.

[riversedge]

7. It is beyond appauling. sickening

[Lulu KC]

4. How can this be legal

And I want to find out who the federal judge is and who appointed him. Absurd. The whole thing.

[PSPS]

5. "agency will continue to not perform audits during the shutdown"

Ideal when you have a mob government.

[OneBro]

6. How convenient.

Trump says the IRS has been auditing him for years, thus he can't release his tax returns (a whopping lie), so does this means he has tied the hands of the agency that is auditing him?

[LakeSuperiorView]

8. If they are not performing audits, he no longer has any excuse.

Not that he ever did, citing an audit is bullshit.

[in2herbs]

9. Will the single parent who can't afford to work without a paycheck because the day-care center wants

their money, will the worker lose their job if they can't work without pay because it's the only way they can pay the day care?

[MadLinguist]

10. I sure hope the backpay can all be declared as untaxable income

for all federal workers who have to work and trust that they'll eventually be paid some sunny day.
What a gott dam disgrace. Discount turtle meat, anyone?

[0rganism]

11. so no audits, only refunds

how nice ... for some.

[obamanut2012]

12. It is illegal to issue refunds

This is crazy. And it is slave labor.

[watoos]

13. Wait until those Trumpers figure out

that their pay raises came from their tax refunds.

I'm waiting to file my return.