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Tax Notes IRS reporter Benjamin Valdez provides an update on the IRS’s recent staffing developments and how they may affect filing season.

Check out our most recent episode on the IRS, "Trump's Hiring Freeze and the IRS."

For more coverage, read the following in Tax Notes:

• IRS Rollout of In-Person Work Faces Obstacles
• Treasury, IRS Still Finalizing Next Staff Reductions, Krause Says
• IRS to Pause Technology Modernization Work
• Trump Replaces Acting IRS Chief Counsel
• Ousted IRS Human Capital Officer Pushed Back on Firings, DOGE
• Former IRS Officials Warn of Consequences to Staff Cuts

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This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine School of Law Graduate Tax Program. For more information, visit law.uci.edu/gradtax.

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CreditsHost: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jasper B. Smith, Paige Jones
Producers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes
Audio Engineers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes