The U.S. Internal Revenue Service plans to hire nearly 30,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years as it ramps up an $80 billion investment plan to improve tax enforcement and customer service, it said on Thursday.
The tax agency, in its long-awaited Strategic Operating Plan, said it will obligate about $8.64 billion of the new funding during the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years, and that 8,782 of the new hires during those years will be enforcement staff.
U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told reporters: “The IRS is going to hire more data scientists than they ever have for enforcement purposes.”
Adeyemo also stated that this will help more revenue agents and also traditional tax attorneys to utilize the new technologies of data analytics, which will help to identify audit targets.
Details from the report reveal that the IRS will continue to add new customer service employees. Mitchell includes the hiring of 13,883 full-time equivalent staff over the next two years.
The $80 billion in funding will help rebuild audit capability and also replace old computer technologies with new ones.
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