The IRS faces a challenging landscape for the 2026 tax filing season, marked by a drastic workforce reduction and significant budget cuts.

The 2026 tax season could be rough, with IRS staff cuts and budget woes likely causing delays and service issues for taxpayers.

The IRS has lost more than a quarter of its employees under the Trump administration and faces further staffing cuts.

Taxpayers could face significant hurdles during the 2026 tax filing season after the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reduced ...

The IRS is grappling with a significant backlog of 387,000 unresolved identity theft cases as of June. This issue, exacerbated by staff reductions and budget cuts, raises concerns about the agency's ...

A congressional budget deal could deflate an IRS effort to pursue wealthy tax cheats.. President Joe Biden added nearly $80 billion in new IRS funding to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, money ...

The IRS had “one of the most successful filing seasons in recent history” in 2025, but the 2026 season is at risk because of job losses and funding cuts, the national taxpayer advocate (NTA) said ...

Now, the IRS is justifying its request for another $104 billion in mandatory multiyear spending, or eight times the agency’s annual budget, as again being needed to maintain IRS employees and ...

More than 60% of X users preferred having the IRS’s budget “deleted.” Only 3.9% said the federal agency’s budget should remain the same, 5.6% felt it deserved more money and 29.9% said the ...

In his fiscal year (FY) 2025 budget proposal, President Biden requested Congress provide an unprecedented $104 billion in additional funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on top of its ...

Last year, Warren introduced legislation that would make IRS funding mandatory, or provided each year independent of the appropriations process, and more than double its current budget to $31.5 ...

Anyone on the receiving end of an IRS audit will say there’s never a good time to open up the books for Uncle Sam’s revenue agents. That’s never felt more true, say people who’ve witnessed ...