The IRS lost 27% of its workforce over the past year — from 102,000 to 74,000 employees — right as tax season begins and complex new tax law changes take effect.
The National Taxpayer Advocate warns the landscape is "markedly different" from 2025. Automation handles most returns, but millions of taxpayers who need human help will face long waits and delays.
Interesting structural dynamic: cutting the revenue collection agency while expanding deficits does not reduce government. It just shifts funding from transparent taxation to less visible extraction — borrowing and monetary expansion.
#IRS #DOGE #taxes #economics #monetarypolicy
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