Nearly 40,000 IRS employees remain on the job, including 3,500 new customer service representatives who began training on Sept. 22. While walk-in Taxpayer Assistance Centers are closed, the IRS customer service telephone lines are still open, although taxpayers and practitioners are reporting difficulty in getting through to an IRS representative.

IRS will not respond to correspondence during the shutdown.

The union that represents IRS employees warns taxpayers to “expect increased wait times, backlogs and delays implementing tax law changes as the shutdown continues.”

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The IRS has more than 74,000 employees.

All IRS employees continued working during the first five days of the government shutdown.

The furloughs took effect on day 6 of the shutdown.

The employees wh

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