IRS budget and workforce

This section of the Data Book provides an overview of IRS budget activities, including taxpayer services, en­forcement, operations support, and business systems modernization. Taxpayer Services funding includes processing for tax returns and related documents, as well as assistance to taxpayers filing returns and paying taxes due. Enforcement funding includes the examina­tion of tax returns, collection of balances due, and ad­ministrative and judicial settlement of taxpayer appeals of examination findings. Operations Support provides administrative services, policy management, and IRS-wide support necessary to deliver taxpayer-facing service and enforcement programs. This appropriation also funds staffing, equipment, and related costs used to manage, maintain, and operate critical information systems supporting tax administration. The Business Systems Modernization appropriation funds capital asset acquisition of information technology systems. This section also includes information on the size and diversity of the IRS workforce. 

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Highlights of the data

• IRS’s actual expenditures were $19.0 billion for overall operations in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 (Table 6-1 XLSX ).
• In FY 2025, the IRS used 95,226 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions in conducting its work (Table 6-3 XLSX ).
• Racial and ethnic minority employees made up 57.6 percent of the IRS and Chief Counsel workforce, compared to a 40.1 percent share of the overall federal civilian labor force (Table 6-4 XLSX ).
• Women represented 63.2 percent of IRS and Chief Counsel personnel, compared to 45.8 percent of the overall federal civilian labor force (Table 6-4 XLSX ).
• Veterans comprised 9.6percent of the IRS and Chief Counsel workforce (Table 6-4 XLSX ).

Index of Data Book tables

IRS budget & workforce: Tables 6-1 – 6-4

Table 6-1: Costs incurred by budget activity, fiscal years 2024 and 2025 XLSX 
Table 6-2: Collections, costs, personnel, and U.S. population, fiscal years 1995-2025 XLSX 
Table 6-3: Personnel summary, by employment status, budget activity, and selected personnel type, fiscal years 2024 and 2025 XLSX 
Table 6-4: Internal Revenue Service and Chief Counsel labor force, compared to national totals for federal and civilian labor forces, by sex, race/ethnicity, disability, and veteran status, fiscal year 2025 XLSX

Data for all years

• Table 6-1
• Table 6-2
• Table 6-3
• Table 6-4

Other Data Book sections:

• Returns filed, taxes collected and refunds issued
• Service to taxpayers
• Compliance presence
• Collections, activities, penalties and appeals
• Chief Counsel
• IRS budget & workforce