IRS Budget & Workforce

 

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Section 8 of the IRS Data Book provides an overview of IRS budget activities, including taxpayer services, enforcement, operations support, and business systems modernization. The section also includes information on the size and composition of the IRS workforce.

Chart 1 shows the number of employees at the close of Fiscal Years 2013 through 2018. Fiscal Year 2018 has reported a decrease in full-time equivalent positions of 15.5 percent since 2013. Chart 2 shows the IRS total operating cost for fiscal years 2009 through 2018. IRS’s actual expenditures were $11.7 billion for overall operations in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, up from about $11.5 billion in FY 2017.

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Highlights of the Data

  • IRS’s actual expenditures were $11.7 billion for overall operations in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, up from about $11.5 billion in FY 2017 (Table 28).
  • In FY 2018, the IRS used 73,519 full-time equivalent positions in conducting its work, a decrease of 15.5 percent since 2013 (Table 30).
  • Women represented 65.6 percent of IRS and Chief Counsel personnel, compared to 48.1 percent of the overall civilian labor force (Table 31).

Index of Data Book Tables

 

IRS Budget & Workforce: Tables 28–31

Table 28: Costs Incurred by Budget Activity, Fiscal Years 2017 and 2018 (XLS)

Table 29: Collections, Costs, Personnel, and U.S. Population, Fiscal Years 1989–2018 (XLS)

Table 30: Personnel Summary, by Employment Status, Budget Activity, and Selected Personnel Type, Fiscal Years 2017 and 2018 (XLS)

Table 31: Internal Revenue Service and Chief Counsel Labor Force, Compared to National Totals for Federal and Civilian Labor Forces, by Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Disability, and Veteran Status, Fiscal Year 2018 (XLS)

Data for all years

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