The IRS Is Losing Hundreds of Criminal Investigators
- Investigators retiring amid budget cuts creates brain drain
- Criminal Chief frets about relevance as probes fall 32%
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Tax cheats can breathe a little easier. The gun-toting Internal Revenue Service investigators who send felons to prison are retiring in droves and there’s no one to replace them.
IRS Criminal Investigation agents are the elite special forces in the never-ending war on tax evasion. They are feared among criminals for their unmatched ability to follow the money, assess net worth and find fraud in corporate books. They have been at the center of major tax and money-laundering cases involving Swiss banks, FIFA soccer officials, and the Costa Rican digital currency company Liberty Reserve.