- The IRS is preparing to hire tens of thousands of new employees by the end of fiscal 2024, with many of those new hires going to improve taxpayer experience and beef up enforcement.
- The IRS outlined its hiring and workforce goals as part of the Strategic Operating Plan it released Thursday.
- More broadly, the plan describes how the IRS will spend nearly $80 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act, which is meant for the agency to rebuild its workforce and modernize its legacy IT over the next decade.
- The IRS plans to hire more than 10,000 employees before the end of this fiscal year, and nearly 20,000 new employees in fiscal 2024.