Most Americans have a weight off their shoulders this week—assuming they filed their taxes by Tuesday’s deadline. For the Internal Revenue Service, though, the stress has only just begun. Tax season is always a busy time for the agency, but this year it has to process around 160 million returns with a staff that has been decimated by President Trump and Elon Musk’s war on government . Between firings and mass resignations, the IRS is expected to lose a third of its 100,000 workers this year.