Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)

The annual tax return filing season is a critical time for the IRS. It's when most individuals file their tax returns and contact the IRS if they have questions. Our latest report has the interim results of IRS's efforts to timely and accurately process individual paper and electronically filed (e-filed) tax returns during the 2025 Filing Season. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/es2av2qP

Eight Charged in Federal Crackdown on Treasury Check Fraud Read more: https://lnkd.in/enSt99yG

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Did you have a recent experience interacting with the IRS and think it could be something potentially affecting lots of taxpayers? If so, let us know. Our mission is to make sure the nation's tax system works effectively and point out ways the IRS can fix it. Submit your suggestion, and we'll see if we can make it the focus of a future project. https://lnkd.in/ggXgQNur

Twice a year, we issue a report to Congress packed with six months of our accomplishments. It's our Semiannual Report to Congress, and we just issued our latest. It's a great way to catch up on our work and learn more about TIGTA and how we protect the nation's tax system. It has short summaries of our most impactful reports and investigative work, like uncovering a scheme that used stolen identities to deposit fraudulent U.S. Treasury checks. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/eVrf-eeH

Here's a quick recap of what we found when we evaluated how the IRS notified individual and business taxpayers affected by a large-scale data breach and the agency's progress expanding the use of electronic signature services on non-tax forms. https://lnkd.in/ehF6XBPn

Here's a quick recap to get you caught up on what we found when we reviewed IRS's oversight of tax-exempt hospitals and the agency's use of artificial intelligence to select returns and issues for examination. https://lnkd.in/dbXsFDX6

The IRS still has not satisfied the Payment Integrity Information Act goal to reduce improper payment rates to less than 10% in four high-risk programs. ---- We're required to annually assess and report on improper payment requirements contained in the Payment Integrity Information Act. For FY 2024, the IRS calculated improper payment estimates for four programs considered high-risk because they have improper payments that exceed $100 million annually. The total amount of improper payments in these four programs totaled $21.4 billion. The Department of the Treasury Agency Financial Report attributes the causes of refundable tax credit errors to factors such as the complexity of the eligibility rules, inability to verify taxpayer-provided information prior to issuing refunds, lack of correctable error authority, and a requirement to issue refunds within 45 days. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gsyBf2aN

In case you missed it, earlier this week we issued a report on #IRS workforce reductions that have occurred as of March 2025. It's a quick read that gives you the who, the what, and the where about the more than 11,400 IRS employees that either received termination notices as probationary employees or voluntarily resigned through the initial Deferred Resignation Program. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gYEFa5ZE

📢 New report on IRS workforce reductions (as of March 2025) 📢 Since January 2025, there have been several executive orders to reduce the size of the federal workforce. In February 2025, the IRS had approximately 103,000 employees. Since then, more than 11,400 IRS employees either received termination notices as probationary employees or voluntarily resigned, representing an 11% reduction to the agency's workforce. Specifically: -7,315 probationary employees received termination notices. -4,128 employees were approved to accept the Deferred Resignation Program (an additional 522 employees are pending approval). This is our first report on IRS workforce reductions and it focuses on the probationary employees identified for termination and the employees who voluntarily participated in the initial Deferred Resignation Program. We'll periodically update this report to highlight further reductions, including the impacts of the second Deferred Resignation Program and Reductions in Force. Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/gYEFa5ZE