Big shake-up at the IRS: two of their top crypto experts, Raj Mukherjee and Seth Wilks, are out after taking voluntary resignation deals under the Department of Government Efficiency $DOGE
According to sources, the two are technically still IRS employees for a few months but have already been placed on paid administrative leave as of Friday afternoon. These $DOGE -directed resignations have been offered to a broad list of federal workers under the Trump administration’s plans to streamline agencies.
Wilks came from TaxBit, and Mukherjee had a background with ConsenSys and Binance.US before joining the IRS in February 2024. Both were leading figures in the agency’s Digital Asset Initiative, helping modernize the IRS’s approach to crypto taxes. They played key roles in shaping the new 1099-DA form rolled out last summer and were involved in building out enforcement and compliance policies related to digital assets.
They also contributed to drafting rules for crypto taxation — one of which, targeting data collection from DeFi brokers, was finalized under Biden but overturned earlier this year through a joint resolution in Congress, signed by $TRUMP
Wilks served as executive director of digital asset strategy and development, while Mukherjee led the IRS’s digital assets office.
Sources told CoinDesk that although they technically took voluntary buyouts, their exits line up with broader IRS staff cuts. More than 20,000 IRS employees have signed up for this deferred resignation program, with most on leave through September, according to a recent New York.
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