Dozens of IRS Information Technology Workers Are Put on Leave

As many as 50 IT employees at the IRS were placed on administrative leave March 28, according to a person familiar with the situation.

The move comes ahead of more sweeping prospective agency cuts. Initial administration plans called for an overall cutback of 18% of the IRS’s workforce by May 15.

IRS’s information technology unit had proposed cuts of about 30% as part of the larger plan.

The IRS has been under heightened pressure since President Donald Trump took office, with thousands of probationary employees fired, and a focus on how to more widely share taxpayer data, most recently to ...