IRS employees involved in the 2025 tax season will not be allowed to accept a buyout offer from the Trump administration until after the taxpayer filing deadline.

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees who accepted the Trump administration's buyout and opted for deferred resignation have been asked by their employers to continue working for a few months due to the "essential" nature of their jobs.

Internal Revenue Service employees who had agreed to the Trump administration's buyout offer are now being ordered to work at the agency until a month after the tax-filing deadline, prompting the head of the employee union to call it a "bait-and-switch."