IRS employees accept OPM federal worker buyout; How the 2025 tax season may be affected

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IRS employees accept OPM federal worker buyout; How the 2025 tax season may be affected

Feb. 6 marked the deadline for federal workers to accept the

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These buyouts, or the option of “deferred resignation,” were offered

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to over two million federal employees.

All federal workers were

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due to a majority of federal agencies downsizing by methods of “restructurings, realignments and reductions in force,” according to the OPM’s email sent to federal employees.

People use IRS Direct File at the Internal Revenue Service Building on April 05, 2024 in Washington, DC.

As of Wednesday, approximately 40,000 federal employees

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, which is about 2% of the federal workforce, says Accounting Today. Employees that have chosen to accept the offer and resign will still get paid through September.

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As for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), employees

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have been told that they are expected to stay on the job through May 15, due to the agency deeming their work as essential to this year’s tax season.

However, the

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to federal employees, of all agencies, that if the buyout offer is accepted, then those employees would continue working until Feb. 28 and then would go on paid administrative leave beginning March 1.

This means that while other federal employees are able to go on paid leave on March 1, IRS employees involved in the

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will not be able to go on paid leave until after the tax filing deadline.

IRS employee who cannot be placed on administrative leave until May include those in job positions within Taxpayer Services, Information Technology and the Taxpayer Advocate Service.

Presley Bo Tyler is a reporter for the Louisiana Deep South Connect Team for Gannett/USA Today. Find her on X @PresleyTyler02 and email at *****@*****.tld

This article originally appeared on Shreveport Times:

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