IRS Pulls Job Post Detailing How New Accounting Agents May Use ‘Deadly Force’ After Backlash

The Internal Revenue Service just deleted a job posting page from its website detailing duties for prospective new agents, including using “deadly force if necessary” during tax audits.

The job description states:

As a Special Agent you will combine your accounting skills with law enforcement skills to investigate financial crimes. Special Agents are duly sworn law enforcement officers who are trained to “follow the money.” No matter what the source, all income earned, both legal and illegal, has the potential of becoming involved in crimes which fall within the investigative jurisdiction of the IRS Criminal Investigation. Because of the expertise required to conduct these complex financial investigations, IRS Special Agents are considered the premier financial investigators for the Federal government.

The “major duties” included in the IRS Special Agent (SA) job description require a willingness to “carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary.”

And for an annual salary of $50,704-$89,636, SAs are required to work a “minimum of 50 hours per week” and be “willing and able to participate in arrests, execution of search warrants, and other dangerous assignments.”

The job posting page was quickly removed from the IRS jobs website following massive blowback on social media.

By NC ScoutPublished On: August 11, 2022Categories: Uncategorized6 Comments

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6 Comments

Pirate August 11, 2022 at 08:25

Here is the deal : They can ‘want’ to have however many people to fill 85k jobs (some of those will have to be support, so using standard calculations, support would have to be 75%), with say, 25% of those being IRS SA’s. So, of those 21,500, each class would need to be around 2,125 SA’s a year. The time to effectively train 2,125 agents is three years minimum for any federal position that uses LE powers. Also, they have to actually ‘find’ 21 to 25 year olds, who are phsyically fit, have a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and who have good math skills.

Based on reason, I am not sure if that is as doable a request as they think – or beleive. Also, what happens when they send these barely trained people up to harass families living in Southern Appalachia or Southern Louisiana (a population who’s own 60-70 year olds walk up hills everyday or going through swamps, hunt and even ride motorcycles with their old biker buddies if they aren’t farming)? To me, this all sounds like a recipe for Southern Comfort version 2.

Said, I can’t see this IRS thing being anything more than a psyop to demoralize the American population. The federal job registry is full of positions now that can’t be filled because the nation does not have enough talented or educated people to fill them. If the military, with all it’s benefits, is having issues recruiting (and they donot even require a degree), then what say the IRS? Also, current federal employees are leaving because HR is over the top celebrating whatever diversity flavor of the day is going on for the month.
rto-jerry August 11, 2022 at 08:55

Operaaatoooooor!!
boss21 August 11, 2022 at 10:13

Desperate apparatchiks trying to reassure their masters that they can extract more ‘faith and credit’ out of the broke deplorables . The mathematics don’t lie however.
rto-jerry August 11, 2022 at 12:04

EeeeeeLiiiite Operaaatooooor!
James Carpenter Carpenter August 11, 2022 at 13:02

Let’s see “one of our own” get hired so as to report back as to locations of substantial ammo stockpiles. Unlike tea, I doubt patriots would be dumping it in any harbor…
Rusty August 12, 2022 at 07:04

Conservatives love cops, but hate IRS agents, but “ACAB” is leftwing rhetoric, but the FBI is corrupt?