And despite what many Americans have heard, more than 97 percent of I.R.S. employees don’t carry a gun. The few who do are law enforcement officers working to disrupt drug dealers, human traffickers and terrorists. For a vast majority who do not, the most dangerous thing on their person is probably a calculator.

The tax agency is laying off 7,000 employees, but there are protections for taxpayers whose refund payments are delayed.

The layoffs at the Internal Revenue Service came alongside additional firings at the Transportation Security Administration and the C.I.A.

While federal workers are concentrated around Washington, D.C., there are thousands more in cities throughout the country. Laying them off will impact those local economies.

The IRS has begun laying off more than 6,000 new and newly promoted employees across the country as part of the push to slash the federal government, sources say.

There are exceptions to the annual exclusion gift limit rules, particularly when it comes to tuition and medical expenses.

The United States Internal Revenue Service will lay off about 7,000 workers, with some 400 here in Philadelphia already given termination notices.

The IRS is latest federal agency under review by Elon Musk’s cost-cutting group.

The IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season, according to two sources familiar with the agency’s plans, and cuts could come as soon as next week.

Experts say the layoffs of roughly 7,000 IRS probationary workers likely mean the end of the agency’s plans to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collections.