Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause has decided to resign, though she will continue working for at least another month. She is now the 3rd leader of the agency to resign this year.
Melanie Krause is the third leader of the agency to resign this year; Senate-confirmed Commissioner Danny Werfel resigned from his role on Inauguration Day, less than two years into his five-year term.
One month later, acting commissioner Doug O’Donnell, who spent nearly four decades at the IRS, retired amid concerns about the Trump administration’s management of the agency…
Krause is participating in the deferred resignation program — one of several top agency officials to be doing so. Some had already elected to take the “buyout” previously before the memorandum of understanding was reached with DHS.
Krause isn’t talking but it seems pretty clear she is leaving over an…
