- IRS is planning to use AI to supplement its workforce
- The organization has dismissed 25% of its staff
- More cuts are likely to follow, report claims
The American Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to use AI to replace workers who have made extensive cuts in their workforce.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discussed the budget proposal in a house for appropriations committee, with reports confirming that the IRS has lost almost a third of its taxing auditors since the beginning of the second Trump administration – with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that trimming the work of work through fires and ‘exposed dismantling’.
Bessent claimed further proposed reductions and plans to push for further redundancies would not affect the agency’s tax collection skills thanks to “current AI boom” – although he did not explain exactly how the agency will implement the technology.
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The delimitation of staff reduction will not result in a loss of capacity, despite the fact that most of the fired revenue agents, where 31% of IRS’s revenue -agent workforce was dismissed.
“I think through smarter it through this AI boom that we can use it to improve the collections, and I would expect collections to continue to be very robust as they were this year,” Besset said.
The 25% reduction in the workforce for the IRS can lead to potential delays in tax refuses for US taxpayers, but it seems that the cuts are likely to continue.
Musk’s DODE department has also canceled several government contracts in the name of cost savings, including with IBM, Deloitte and Gartner – just to name a few.
Over half of British companies that replaced workers with AI are now reporting that they regret their decision and there is huge amounts of uncertainty – with 38% of the leaders who do not fully understand AI’s influence in their business, and 25% uncertain what roles are most exposed to risk.
Technical giants including IBM, Crowdstrike and most recently Google have cut staff in recent months, with many planning to replace these jobs with AI.
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