IRS employees who have accepted Trump Resignation offer must work anyway

Oops. It turns out that the Internal Revenue Service cannot operate without some of its employees, especially during the tax registration season.

On January 27, 2025, the day after accepting the IRS with the acceptance of individual tax returns for 2024 to September 30, 2025 (end of the financial year). Until February 6, the employees had to accept the offer for postponed return programs (DRP).

There were originally some ambiguities as to whether the resignation of employees would have to do work for the next eight months. But Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, which was the driving force behind the offer, commented X: “Take the vacation you always want, or just watch films and get your full government and services . ” The OPM also said about the offer in the FAQs.

The original DRP announcement frees “military personnel of the armed forces, employees of the US mail service, which in positions in connection with the enforcement of immigration and national security” as well as “those in other positions that are specifically excluded from their employment authority”.

Today, a message to IRS employee of the IRS -HumankaPital officer has announced that those in “specific, critical login seasonal positions” do not take part in the DRP.

The IRS confirmed that specific positions of the critical registration season are now excluded from the DRP by May 15, 2025. It is unclear who suits these criteria, but the memo notes that it contains those in taxpayer services, information technologies and the taxpayer lawyer. (A call to comment on the taxpayer lawyer service was not returned immediately.)

In an allusion to the idea that the exemption was a subsequent thought, those who have already accepted the offer and no longer work, but it falls into the exception that they were told when they were supposed to return to work.

The original letter and the following OPM guidelines stated that the decision of an employee to make the resignation was irrevocable. It is not clear whether IRS employees who have submitted their resignation can expect eight months of wages without work and are now losing three and a half working months.

An inquiry to comment to the National Treasury Employees Union (N tax) that IRS employee represents was not returned immediately. In an explanation of Axios, Doreen Greenwald, the President of NU, said: “This is not only a clear case of bait and switch-sie that they were originally paid for not to work by September 30- But it, but it proves that the conditions of the so -called offer of OPM are unreliable and are not trustworthy. “

To this afternoon, around 40,000 employees in all civilian authorities – around 2% of the workforce – had accepted the DRP offer.

Setting freezers and job offers to appear the job offer

The DRP offer followed after an executive order of President Trump, which was hired for most federal authorities. This order has expanded a temporary freeze for the IRS for most federal authorities. Within 90 days, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), in consultation with OPM and Doge, must present a plan to reduce the government’s workforce. As soon as the plan has been submitted, freezing expires for all other agencies than the IRS. With regard to the tax authority, the freezing freezen remains defined by the finance minister in consultation with omb and Doge, “to” determine that it is in the national interest to raise freezing. “

Shortly after the order, job offers from official websites and candidates with IRS job offers with a start date after February 8, 2025 (or an unconfirmed start date) were invented that these job offers were canceled.

Trump then proposed that he could relieve IRS employees or send it to the border. “You have hired 88,000 workers or tried to hire 88,000 workers, and we are currently developing a plan to either end everyone, or we may bring them to the border,” he said a lot to the approximately resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

(What he receives is misinformations that have become viral in 2022 and 2023 on the IRS financing of the law on the reduction in inflation. The additional money should help the IRS, 87,000 new employees – including customer service and IT employee – in the next decade Rent.

The setting freezing in combination with the DRP asked questions whether the IRS would be sufficiently occupied to carry out the tax instruction season. Well, it seems, the answer was no.

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