IRS Projects Growing Workforce 45% by Fiscal Year 2025 (1)

The IRS hopes to grow its workforce by roughly 45% by fiscal 2025, adding thousands of employees charged with enforcement and operations, many funded by the new climate and tax law, according to projections shared with lawmakers.

The estimates, which assume Congress will grant the Biden administration’s ask to increase agency discretionary funding, call for boosting the workforce by 32,539 full-time equivalent employees from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025, pushing the workforce near 105,187. Using funding from the Inflation Reduction Act and regular appropriations, the agency proposes adding 11,671 staff over the three-year period to help improve taxpayer ...