In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Tax Notes IRS reporter Benjamin Valdez provides an update on the IRS’s recent staffing developments and how they may affect filing season.

Then-acting IRS Commissioner Doug O’Donnell and agency lawyers ruled the request unlawful. O’Donnell retired the next day. His successor, Melanie Krause, and the agency’s new acting chief counsel, ...

Krause and the IRS’s new acting chief counsel, Andrew De Mello, have since met multiple times with Treasury and DHS officials to hash out an agreement, three of the people said.

The IRS is reportedly preparing to reduce its nearly 100,000 workforce by as much as half through layoffs, buyouts, and ...