IRS Hopes to Replace Fired Enforcement Workers with AI

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Following considerable cuts to its enforcement workforce, the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to use AI to supplement its ability to collect taxes from US citizens.

Posted by LampLighter at 11:31 PM | 17 COMMENTS | permalink

DOGE's cuts to IRS auditors will allow billionaires and corporations to get away with tax avoidance schemes while the rest of America faces life-altering cuts to Medicaid, Social Security, education, and rising costs due to Trump's tariffs.

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-- Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (@sarajacobs.house.gov) May 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM

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Billionaires have right to exist

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-10 05:11 PM

NO RIGHT

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-10 05:11 PM

Bessent is another ------- idiot

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-10 05:11 PM

I have spent the past three years transitioning from IT to an AI role in my career. It is super easy to trick. The US government is going to lose billions.
I'm thinking I'm going to start a new tax consultancy business if this is seriously the plan.

#4 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-11 01:54 AM

I thought employing Americans was the goal...but of course I was wrong. The goal is and always was, to weaken the unions and any power center that contains a lot of people who vote against Trump.

#5 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-11 06:56 AM

The goal is and always was, to weaken the unions and any power center that contains a lot of people who vote against Trump.

#6 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-11 06:56 AM | Reply | Flag:

The unions did enough to weaken themselves. And the ones that still have some clout left are doing all they can to ensure the future generations won't have a union to join.

#6 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-05-11 10:39 AM

"The unions did enough to weaken themselves."

Like when Republicans passed Right To Work.
Why would the Unions weaken themselves like that?

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-11 11:03 AM

"Replace Fired Enforcement Workers with AI"

When I did my taxes this year, the tax software got it wrong, I would have paid an extra $6K in taxes if I hadn't double checked everything. And even then it was a lot of work to convince the tax preparers that their software wasn't working right.

My expectation is when the Trump Federal AI makes a mistake, there will be very little timely recourse in that situation.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-11 11:14 AM

Atsome point not that far in the future your tax case will br decided by a computer running AI software.

#9 | Posted by danni at 2025-05-11 11:24 AM

They'll make sure that the algorithms completely ignore the wealthy.

#10 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-05-11 01:23 PM

My expectation is when the Trump Federal AI makes a mistake, there will be very little timely recourse in that situation.

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#11 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-11 01:29 PM

Like when Republicans passed Right To Work.
Why would the Unions weaken themselves like that?

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-11 11:03 AM | Reply | Flag

Republicans??? The Right To Work laws are passed by individual states, and it was the Democrats in my state that made it happen. In fact, Edwin Edwards was elected on the premise that he would never sign a RTW bill into law, but he did without any hesitation.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-05-11 01:37 PM

IRS Hopes to Replace Fired Enforcement Workers with AI

Following considerable cuts to its enforcement workforce, the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to use AI to supplement its ability to collect taxes from US citizens.

Posted by LampLighter at 11:31 PM

What could possibly go wrong...

OCU

#13 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-05-11 01:58 PM

And speaking of federal workers leaving their jobs, Republicans in Congress are now talking about reducing the pension benefits for federal employees. They say that they're still looking for places where they can get the money needed to pay for Trump's 'big beautiful bill' that they've been working on for the last couple of months.

OCU

#14 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-05-11 01:59 PM

#12 | Posted by donnerboy DB-you left out the part where you are told to send the (erroneous) amount you owe immediately to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

#15 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-05-11 03:00 PM

Trump's guilty of not making the cuts deep enough to roll back Biden's padding of the Federal payroll.

#16 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-05-11 09:18 PM

@#14 ... What could possibly go wrong... ...

The wealthy can ~play~ the AI to get even more tax cuts they may not deserve.

And that's just for starters.

#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-12 09:08 PM

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