IRS Boosts Hiring and Tech to Combat Tax Evasion

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced plans to hire more people and use cutting-edge technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to better fight tax fraud. This is a big step toward making tax enforcement stronger. A recent story says that Danny Werfel, the commissioner of the IRS, explained the agency’s plan to hire more people in the coming months.

It was stressed by Commissioner Werfel how important technology and AI are for making it easier for IRS compliance teams to find cases of tax cheating. The IRS wants to make big changes to how it works by using better tools to find new compliance threats and speed up the process of choosing which audits to do.

In an interview with the Federal News Network, Commissioner Werfel talked about how busy the agency’s hiring season is in the fall and said that they plan to hire more police officers until 2024. With a lofty goal of hiring about 20,000 people by the end of 2024, the plan aims to fill tax inspector jobs in more than 250 places across the United States.

Werfel did say, though, that it was hard to hire people for government jobs right now. “It’s a harder environment to recruit people into the federal government when there’s a lot of headwind around federal employment,” he said.

Commissioner Werfel said on September 8 that the IRS’s preventive method is a “sea change” in the way it works. The IRS’s focus on using technology and AI shows that it is serious about finding people who are breaking the tax rules while keeping the effects on law-abiding citizens as low as possible.

Though the IRS is going through these big changes, the addition of new employees and cutting-edge technology will help the agency do its job of making sure people pay their taxes and stopping scams.