IRS chief sees workforce topping 100,000 in three years


Werfel said that near-term hiring will focus on improving taxpayer services and on handling complex audits. — Reuters

WASHINGTON: The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner Danny Werfel says that the tax agency will need to boost its workforce to over 100,000 people over the next three years to achieve its modernisation, service and enforcement goals and additional funding will be needed to maintain that extra capacity.

Werfel told reporters on his first anniversary in the IRS top job that near-term hiring will focus on improving taxpayer services and on handling complex audits.

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