Smaller IRS Brings New Audit Considerations, Former Officials Say

The widespread loss of staff at the IRS doesn’t necessarily mean practitioners can expect less
thorough audits, according to former officials.

The IRS may be coming off a year in which it lost about a quarter of its 100,000-strong workforce, but
it continues to dig into audits on high-income and corporate taxpayers, former IRS Commissioner
Charles Rettig said at a March 5 Federal Bar Association tax conference.

“What we’re seeing in the trenches is not an agency that has gone into hiding — we’re seeing an
agency that wants to show us that they are there,” said Rettig, now of Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White,
Williams & Aughtry. “Somebody is driving these folks really hard.”

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