IRS to hire nearly 30,000 new staff over next two years

(Washington, DC) -- The Internal Revenue Service is hiring a lot more help.

The IRS said this week it will add up to nearly 30-thousand new staffers and put new technology to work over the next two years.

The additions are part of an 80-billion dollar investment plan to improve tax enforcement and customer service. More than eight-thousand of those new hires will be enforcement staff.

The tax agency will continue beefing up customer service after adding five-thousand new taxpayer services staff to answer phones, reopen taxpayer assistance centers, and process tax returns.