The key office reports to Congress about IRS service levels and advocates individual taxpayer cases to the IRS.
In response to a question from The Hill about reductions to the workforce of the NTA, a Treasury Department spokesperson said the agency was seeking to “right-size” its workforce.
“These adjustments to right-size the NTA will in no way negatively impact that mission nor service to taxpayers in any meaningful way,” the Treasury Department spokesperson said in a statement.
The confirmation of the layoffs follows a report from The Washington Post that the NTA would lay off 25 percent of its staff.
The Trump administration is also planning to get rid of nearly 20 percent of the IRS workforce in general, according to reports, though Treasury Department officials said Friday they didn’t have a specific number in mind for the overall staffing reduction at the national tax collection agency.
The IRS has already fired nearly 7,000 trial employees, more than 5,000 of whom were focused on tax compliance.
The Hill’s Tobias Burns has more here.
