The White House will order the IRS to pay income tax refunds despite the government shutdown, Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, said at a briefing with Vice President Mike Pence. The IRS has sent close to 90 percent of its workforce home without pay due to the government’s partial shutdown, according to a…
Funding for many government agencies expired at midnight on Friday, which triggered a partial shutdown of the federal government. The IRS is affected by the shutdown because it is not already funded through September 2019. The IRS, having dealt with workforce and budget cuts since 2010, is already stretched thin with implementing the December 2017 tax reform law in time for the…
The government shut down early Saturday, January 20th after Congress failed to agree on a funding bill. That triggered automatic furloughs for government employees deemed “non-essential.” That means only a portion of each federal agency’s employees will continue to work through the shutdown. A shutdown plan posted on the Treasury Department’s website shows that nearly…
