"Job cuts at the IRS's tech arm have gone faster and farther than expected, with 40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders gone, the agency's CIO revealed yesterday. Kaschit Pandya detailed the extent of the tech reorganization during a panel at the Association of Government Accountants yesterday, describing it as the biggest in two decades."
"As reported by Federal News Network (FNN), Pandya said: "Last year, we lost approximately 40 percent of the IT staff and nearly 80 percent of the execs." "So clearly there was an opportunity, and I thought the opportunity that we needed to really execute was reorganizing.""
"That included breaking up silos within the organization, he said. "Everyone was operating in their own department or area." It is not entirely clear where all those staff have gone. According to a report by the US Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, the IT department had 8,504 workers as of October 2024. As of October 2025, it had 7,135."
Significant reductions in the IRS technology workforce removed roughly 40% of IT staff and nearly 80% of technology executives, shrinking the tech team from about 8,500 employees. The wider agency lost about 25% of its workforce in 2025. A Treasury Inspector General headcount shows IT staffing fell from 8,504 in October 2024 to 7,135 in October 2025. Approximately 1,000 technical staff were reassigned to frontline tax-season duties, prompting concerns among those employees about the decision and its execution. The reorganization aimed to break internal silos and implement cross-functional teams focused on end-to-end project delivery, but measurable improvements have not yet appeared.
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