It’s the agency that nobody loves—the Internal Revenue Service; you know, the one which causes your stomach to clinch when you get a letter from them. It’s never good news.
Joe Biden wanted to add 80,000 new agents to comb through your life—but President Trump has a different view. He’s proposed changing it to the “External Revenue Service,” and now his administration is planning to close 110 IRS offices around the country.
Good riddance:
The Trump administration plans to shutter more than 110 IRS offices that have taxpayer assistance centers as the White House’s efficiency zeal carves deeper into the tax agency.
The plan, outlined in a Tuesday letter from the U.S. General Services Administration that was obtained by The Washington Post, comes in the midst of the federal tax filing season that ends April 15, and as the administration is working to reduce agencies’ headcount and scale back the footprint of the federal government. Last week, the IRS started laying off approximately 7,000 probationary employees.
At least 113 taxpayer assistance centers will have their leases terminated or not renewed when they expire, according to a list included with GSA’s letter. It’s unclear whether the assistance centers — which provide free, in-person help for tax filers, on an appointment basis — will relocate or simply close.
Notice how the Washington Post stresses the fact that some of these offices have “taxpayer assistance centers,” implying that oh-so-many people will be hurt by this move. But why do we need taxpayer assistance centers? Why are our taxes so freaking complicated that people with graduate degrees have to fork over thousands of dollars to their CPAs because the tax code is so convoluted that only a full-time tax nerd can figure them out?
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The people screaming so loudly about Pres. Trump auditing federal spending are the SAME people who wanted to hire 80,000+ new IRS agents to audit the American people under Pres. Biden.
If it weren’t for double standards, there wouldn’t be any standards at all in this town. pic.twitter.com/pH9XLTBVEg
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) February 25, 2025
The failed Biden administration felt that the agency should be expanded so they could further hassle you, but the Trump Team—along with Elon Musk and the DOGE—have a different plan and have been busy scaling back our bloated federal bureaucracy:
The U.S. DOGE Service, which has led the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, has established a strong foothold in the GSA and other agencies. The GSA is working with federal agencies to “fully optimize the federal footprint,” acting press secretary Will Powell said. “We’ll share more information on specific savings and facilities as soon as we’re able.”
The IRS in recent years opened more assistance centers as part of a push to improve customer service using additional funding made available through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. [Editor’s note: The ridiculously named “Inflation Reduction Act” was a Green New Deal slushfund that did nothing to curb Bidenflation.] More than 50 assistance centers were opened or reopened between the passage of the act and mid-January 2024, bringing the total to more than 360 nationwide, the agency has said.
🚨 #BREAKING: The IRS will now be closing over 120 offices nationwide, in addition to laying off THOUSANDS of employees, per WaPo
This comes after We The People OVERWHELMINGLY voted for DOGE to audit the IRS, and apparently, they’re moving quickly 🔥
Vox Populi, Vox Dei! pic.twitter.com/JtxlAeLQJV
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 26, 2025
(Note: although the above tweet references 120 offices being closed, the WaPo issued a correction on their story indicating that it was about 110.)
My eldest daughter will sometimes take her leave by saying, “Bye-ee!” That pretty much sums up my reaction to these closures. In other words, “See ya, wouldn’t want to be ya!”
