Section 6 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. View chart details. For additional graphs from this section, download the PDF of this year’s Data Book. Highlights of the Data IRS’s actual expenditures were $12.3 billion for overall operations in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020, up from about $11.8 billion in FY 2019 (Table 30). In FY 2020, the IRS used 75,773 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions in conducting its work, a decrease of almost 20 percent since FY 2010 (Table 32). Women represented 64.9 percent of IRS and Chief Counsel personnel, compared to 44.4 percent of the overall civilian labor force (Table 33). Index of Data Book Tables IRS Budget & Workforce: Tables 30–33 Table 30: Costs Incurred by Budget Activity, Fiscal Years 2019 and 2020Table 31: Collections, Costs, Personnel, and U.S. Population, Fiscal Years 1991–2020Table 32: Personnel Summary, by Employment Status, Budget Activity, and Selected Personnel Type, Fiscal Years 2019 and 2020Table 33: 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 2020 Data for all years Table 30 Table 31 Table 32 Table 33 Additional applications may be needed to access linked content on this page. Get free Adobe Acrobat® reader or Excel® viewer. Return to the IRS Data Book home page Back to Top
