November 13, 1997 | Read Time: 1 minute
The I.R.S., already strapped for resources to monitor tax-exempt groups, could find itself stretched even thinner in coming years.
Marc Owens, director of the agency’s Exempt Organizations Division, said government projections call for a 20-per-cent cut in total I.R.S. staff levels through 2002, from about 100,000 employees to 80,000. Mr. Owens said he assumes that his division would share such a reduction, though the projection is subject to change.
The I.R.S. has been under a hiring freeze for more than a year. The number of employees in who monitor tax-exempt groups and employee benefit plans, including Mr. Owens’s department, fell from 2,413 in 1992 to 2,194 last year.
