Most of the back-office IRS employees who were involuntarily moved to cover frontline filing-season work will remain on their temporary reassignments.
The IRS in early February put about 1,500 IT and human resources employees on 120-day details to work in taxpayer services. Most of the IRS employees who moved to taxpayer services have no background in this work and have gone through months of training. The agency lost 27% of its employees last year and fell short of hiring goals for the filing season.
In a call Friday morning, Joseph Ziegler, the IRS chief of internal consulting, said most of the employees currently on taxpayer services details that were set to expire in June will have their details extended for another 120 days.
