The Supervisory Authority warns that the Trump budget bill and employment discounts are in the Tax Authority

The workforce in the Tax Authority decreased from 102,113 workers to 75702 over the past year, according to the latest National taxpayer motivation Report to Congress. On Wednesday, the report presented the first official figures on job losses in the Tax Authority associated with the government efficiency management in Elon Musk.

Most of the employees took the “Rokka on the way” resignation from Duwaj instead of waiting for the layoff.

Some results from the report:

Tax motives may see the effects of employment discounts

Trump administration efforts Reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy To a collective migration from the test employees who have not yet acquired the protection of civil service and were presented to the acquisitions through a “deferred resignation program”. More than 17,500 Tax Authority workers took this road. The largest discounts in taxpayers services and commercial/business offices for their own account were.

The report indicated that the proposed budget for the Republican administration includes a 20 % reduction in financing the Public Tax Authority next. This is a 37 % reduction when taking into account supplementary financing in the law to reduce inflation in the Biden era, which was previously stripped by Republicans.

“It is possible that the reduction of this size will affect the taxpayers and perhaps the revenues collected,” wrote Irene M Collins, who leads the organization to protect the rights of taxpayers.

The 2026 tax season may be risky

Collins said the 2025 deposit season was “one of the most successful deposit seasons in modern memory”, although it warned that the 2026 season might be rocky.

“With the workforce in the Tax Authority decreased by 26 % and changes in the important tax law on the horizon, there are risks to the deposit season next year,” Collins wrote. “It is important for the Tax Authority to start taking steps now to prepare.”

She said in the middle of the year, there were fears that the Tax Authority had not yet taken major preparation steps, including employing and training seasonal and permanent employees.

The Trump package can add a new layer of problems

The report warned of the possibility of employees not to manage new provisions from the legislative package of Trump if they are aged.

The report said: “Several provisions will affect retroactively on the tax year for the year 2025, and thus affect millions of taxpayers and require the Tax Authority to update the tax models for the year 2025 and to program the deposit season 2026.”

Specifically, the home bill retroactively prohibits the tax authority from allowing allowing or paying credit claims to keep the employees submitted after January 31, 2024.

The report also said that the Tax Authority historically receives more calls in the years following major changes in the tax law, so it may need additional employees and improved digital tools to maintain the level of service.

ID theft cases are still accumulating

The report said that the Tax Authority is dealing with the delay in solving cases of helping victims of self-stolen identity-it takes a solution of up to 20 months.

As of the end of the deposit season 2025, the Tax Authority dealt with about 387,000 of these cases.

This is a slight improvement from more than 22 months that took it to solve the identity theft, as shown in the report last year, which identified approximately 500,000 cases that were not resolved in its stock.

“The time of the session is still unacceptable,” said Collins. “I still urge the agency to focus on a significant default at the time it takes to” solve the theft cases, “so the victims, especially those who rely on the tax, are not forced to wait for about two years to receive their money.”