{"id":93500,"date":"2022-01-27t23:45:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-28t04:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/?p=93500"},"modified":"2024-06-19t10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19t14:05:52","slug":"irs-brain-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.g005e.com\/2022\/01\/27\/irs-brain-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"is this how the irs dies?"},"content":{"rendered":"
irs, losing staff it can’t replace, slides further into chaos and oblivion.<\/strong><\/p>\n sound-off: how would you fix the irs? by 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间<\/em><\/p>\n internal revenue service employees are resigning and retiring in droves, leaving the agency increasingly powerless to fulfill its mandate as the nation’s tax collector.<\/p>\n more:\u00a0<\/strong>crisis at the irs<\/a> |\u00a0the irs\u2019s 10 biggest problems<\/a> | fear and loathing for tax season \u201922<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0padar joins vc-backed tax fintech for banks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0covid chokes an already crippled irs<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0tax regs for the metaverse<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a010 steps to a superior tax department<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0accountants critical of competitor price-cutting<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0automate busy season with apps you already use<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0sales & use tax costs are higher than anyone thought<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0survey: nobody loves the wayfair decision<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0busy season forecast: more chaos<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0a woman named wanda leaves an ira nightmare<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0are you under-pricing your client accounting services?<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0your best advice: get smart, get tech, get moving<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0worries for small business clients<\/a>\u00a0|<\/p>\n pro members:\u00a0<\/strong>log in here<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a02022世界杯足球排名 today<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n like every other problem the irs has, inadequate staffing is fundamentally caused by inadequate funding. as the irs budget declined by 20 percent between 2010 and 2021, staffing declined by about the same percentage, dropping from 94,711 full-time positions to just 75,773. meanwhile, of course, the number of taxpayers increased.<\/p>\n and now retirees are lining up at the exit door. some 16,928 employees are eligible to retire this year, and 5,590 are expected to do so. next year the number of eligibles will increase to almost 20,000.<\/p>\n with all the problems generated by the staffing gap, the tax gap\u2014the difference between what is owed and what is paid\u2014totaled a good $580 billion in 2019, up from $440 billion in 2013. if that trend continues, the treasury dept. says, the tax gap will reach $7 trillion by 2029.<\/p>\n yes, $7 trillion.<\/p>\n the internal revenue service is \u201cseverely understaffed and unable to adequately recruit, hire, and train much-needed new employees,\u201d according to national tax advocate erin m. collins\u2019s annual report to congress.<\/p>\n understaffing, sluggish recruitment and inadequate training send self-perpetuating problems reverberating through the federal agency that allows america to keep going.<\/p>\n it isn\u2019t [just] the money<\/strong><\/p>\n congress is reluctantly acknowledging that the irs needs better funding, though there is disagreement over whether it needs enough funding or just half of enough.<\/p>\n but in either case, the process, as opposed to the funding, of recruiting, hiring, onboarding and training irs agents is observably sluggish and bureaucratic.<\/p>\n irs hiring is centralized under the human capital office, which itself is underfunded and understaffed. at its current capacity, the report says, hco cannot possibly handle the expected hiring and training requests of the next ten years.<\/p>\n actually, the irs has streamlined the hiring process quite a bit. in 2019, the time-to-hire averaged about 120 days. in 2021, it was down to 88 days, pretty close to the goal of 80 days. still, that\u2019s 80 days when the individual may just decide to take a job somewhere else.<\/p>\n irs university<\/strong><\/p>\n once new employees are on board, the long process of training begins. overall, the irs delivers between 3.6 and 4.6 million hours of training each year. that\u2019s more than some universities.<\/p>\n a clerical tax examiner needs only 64 hours of training, but most professional staff need several hundred hours to learn their jobs. a wage & investment customer service representative needs 1,500 hours. that\u2019s almost nine months at 40 hours a week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n a revenue agent for employee plans needs 1,648 hours of training. a new hire for large business and international taxpayers needs 2,098. an excise tax agent needs 2,740. a special agent in criminal investigation needs 3,904.<\/p>\n in other words, even if the irs were to hire 5,000 new agents today, they wouldn\u2019t be on the job until the busy season next year, and some wouldn\u2019t be online until 2024.<\/p>\n the nta has made several recommendations for the irs to improve its training strategy and for the hco to clean up its bureaucracy and eliminate some redundancies.<\/p>\n says the irs:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cour vision in this area\u2026is a corporate university model, which we call the \u201cirs university\u201d (irsu). the irsu will empower our workforce by equipping employees with the skills and tools needed to advance their careers, provide high-quality service to taxpayers, and ultimately enhance the taxpayer experience. the irsu will be a modern and innovative learning organization focused on leveraging technology, promoting continuous learning, and providing developmental opportunities supporting our employees\u2019 career goals. we will use an industry-leading model to obtain relevant feedback from employees, taxpayers, and key stakeholders and drive continuous improvement in irs training and development activities.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/a>
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\nhemorrhaging staff, the irs is bleeding out.<\/strong>
\nby 卡塔尔世界杯常规比赛时间<\/i><\/p>\n