Former IRS Managers Weigh in on Agency Cuts
The Professional Managers Association, created by former IRS managers, warns that while the short-term impacts are expected to be minimal for most filers, more cuts will have impacts on those with complicated filings or extensions beyond the normal season.
"A lot of things go on, including extension of filings in August and October, but also returns that are filed before April 15th," said former IRS manager Jeff Eppler, who retired in 2023 after serving the agency for 43 years.
"Unless your return comes in, it's accepted as filed, and it's ... you're done with it for the next year. Anybody else is going to have real difficulties after May getting a hold of somebody and that that's going to be an issue," said former IRS manager Donald Dick who retired in December 2024 after serving the agency for 42 years.
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DOWN IN THE WEEDS: Now the real fun begins.
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee will huddle for a full-day meeting this morning, as they kick off in earnest the process of actually drafting massive tax legislation.
Getting into the nitty-gritty is a true test for House GOP tax writers, as they seek to extend the expiring parts of the 2017 Trump tax cuts for as long as humanly possible and also incorporate President Donald Trump’s favored ideas, like eliminating taxes on tips.
That’s a goal that House Republicans share with their Senate colleagues. But turning that big-picture agreement into a fully fleshed out bill will be difficult.
In fact, the challenges that come with extending trillions of dollars’ worth of tax cuts is a major reason that House and Senate Republicans have been hung up on procedural questions for the last couple months.
Not only that, Senate Republicans have their doubts that the House GOP can efficiently get a large tax measure ready for prime time, leading them to essentially bide their time and see what the House can come up with.
In the meantime, the House and the Senate won’t be able to proceed on the budget reconciliation process they want to use to pass all of their and Trump’s priorities until they’ve reached a basic agreement on how to proceed.
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Trump's Mass IRS Filings a "Fraud," Warned Top Agency Lawyer
The Trump administration cited “performance” failures to justify its mass firing of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the administration had not conducted any such performance assessment. On Feb. 20, nearly 7,000 probationary employees at the Internal Revenue Service began receiving an unsigned letter telling them that they had been fired for poor performance.
Trump administration lawyers insist that the IRS and other federal agencies have acted within their authority when they ordered waves of mass terminations since Trump took office. But according to previously unreported emails obtained by ProPublica, a top lawyer at the IRS warned administration officials that the performance-related language in his agency’s termination letter was “a false statement” that amounted to “fraud” if the agency kept the language in the letter.
Manager and Management Official (MOU)
12450 Performance Agreement Modifications
In alignment with recent executive orders and guidance from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), this is to advise of imminent actions and changes to be taken to IRS Manager and Management Official 12450 Performance AgreementsREAD MORE
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