"The Treasury Department, the IRS' parent agency, published its latest AI use case inventory this week, which includes 129 items, 61 of which are specific to the IRS. That's a considerable increase from 2024, when the whole of the Treasury said it was working on just 54 AI use cases, 49 of which were IRS specific. It's been known that the Treasury Department had been"
"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent even said as much in May when asked by Congress, suggesting that the "AI boom" could offset staffing cuts without hurting collections. "I believe through smarter IT, through this AI boom, that we can use that to enhance collections," Bessent told the House Appropriations Committee last year when asked whether staff cuts at the agency would imperil the 2026 filing season. "I expect collections would continue to be very robust as they were this year.""
Tax season 2026 could see increased automation as the IRS plans to use AI to replace staff laid off in 2025. The Treasury published an AI use case inventory listing 129 items overall, 61 IRS-specific, up from 54 total and 49 IRS-specific in 2024. Treasury cuts removed about 25% of IRS IT staff in 2025, prompting 16 IT-related AI projects such as a machine learning model for tax-exempt organization annual reports, a coding assistant, support ticket management, internal research tools, and software to eliminate paper documents. The IRS also plans AI for processing amended corporate and individual tax filings.
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