IRS Extends Deferred Resignation Offer to Workers on Admin Leave

IRS employees who are on administrative leave once again have been given the option to take a deferred resignation offer, according to two people familiar with the situation.

Those select employees were given until Sept. 22 to accept President Donald Trump’s third deferred resignation offer where they would continue their status on paid administrative leave but would exit the agency permanently Dec. 31, the two people said. It is unclear how many were given the offer and how many have accepted.

The deferred resignation offer, created by the Trump administration to encourage workers to leave the government, was offered twice to the entire agency in the first months of the administration. About 21,000 workers signed those first two offers, according to the National Taxpayer Advocate.

• The IRS has put workers on administrative leave in waves, including top leadership and dozens of IT workers.
• After a mass exodus of employees took the resignation offer over the summer, the IRS started hiring again and asked some who signaled they wanted to leave to return.
• The IRS didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.