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The IRS is laying off 6,000 employees on Thursday.
The IRS has roughly 100,000 employees overall.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service will lay off about 6,700 employees on Thursday, a person familiar with the matter said, a restructuring that could strain the tax-collecting agency’s resources during the critical tax-filing season.
The workers being cut are probationary employees who have typically been at the agency for less than one to two years, and enjoy fewer protections than longer-term workers. The IRS has a total of roughly 100,000 employees.
The reductions at the IRS come amid a broader slashing of personnel across the federal government at the directive of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, who is spearheading an unprecedented effort to shrink the bureaucracy.
Like other agencies, the IRS was ordered last week by the Office of Personnel Management, which oversees federal hiring, to dismiss all probationary employees.
But the IRS has taken a more careful approach than most other agencies due to concerns about squeezing resources with the April 15 tax filing deadline just two months away. The IRS remains busy for weeks after the deadline, processing returns and refunds for taxpayers.
It’s unclear whether there will be more layoffs.
It’s unclear whether there will be additional waves of layoffs, a person familiar with the agency’s plans said.
In a video message to employees at the agency’s Kansas City facility, a union official said an indeterminate number of people there will be let go.
“We received notification today that employees in SB/SE who are on probation are scheduled for termination,” said Shannon Ellis, referring to the agency’s Small Business/Self Employed Division.
In another video message, Ellis said: “Our probationary employees will be removed as of tomorrow — we don’t know what time, we don’t know how it’s going to happen, we don’t even know if it includes all of our probationary employees.
“We don’t know for sure if it is going to impact other than probationary employees,” said Ellis, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Chapter 66.
