About 7,000 employees are expected to lose their jobs at the tax agency, according to a person familiar with the decision.

The DOGE-driven job cuts are coming in the midst of the tax filing season, and some tax industry professionals fear disruptions.

The IRS reportedly plans to layoff around 6,000 employees amid a hiring freeze set by President Donald Trump. The IRS layoffs are set to begin Thursday primarily impacting new hires, according to the New York Times and Reuters.

While the full impact of the federal layoffs on Philadelphia’s workforce is still unclear, they have included workers at the Environmental Protection Agency, General Services Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. the Department of Agriculture, The Inquirer reported this week.

The IRS will lay off roughly 7,000 workers in Washington and around the country beginning Thursday, a person familiar with the plans told The Associated Press. The layoffs affect probationary employees with roughly one year or less of service at the agency and largely include workers in compliance departments,

In Blue Ash on Wednesday, Cincinnati-based federal workers said the cuts will reduce critical services to Americans. "Today, federal employees are standing up and fighting back to tell Musk and his cronies they must not dismantle systems we have in place that benefit the American public,

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