In the first 200 days of Trump’s second term, the IRS has faced leadership turnover, budget cuts, and staffing reductions. Read more for our 5 takeaways from 2025 so far.

The probationary employees were going to bring “younger, new people into the organization that hopefully would have a longer shelf life or career,” said Hansen Rada, CEO of Tax Guard, a provider of IRS tax data services.

“I’ve seen numbers of 20%, I’ve seen numbers of 30%, I’ve seen numbers of 50%,” said Tax Guard CEO Hansen Rada. “It’s really difficult to tell what is true, and I don’t think anybody knows, because the proposal has been private, so there is definitely a giant question mark as to how strong the IRS will be going forward.”

“The Treasury put out a statement that if there were a shutdown, they were going to fund the IRS through April 30, with all of it 100% open, which means it would not cause a problem for the f iling season, but then after April 30, the IRS would go to zero,” said Tax Guard CEO Hansen Rada. “Based on the Treasury’s announcement yesterday, it looks like they would get through the filing season and then shut it all down.”

“There will be lending that will stop through the SBA,” says Hansen Rada, the co-founder and CEO of Tax Guard, which provides real-time tax data to lenders. “But I think the greatest impact will be a long tail, which is the IRS then having to catch up during tax season.”

Rachel Libowitz, Senior Tax Advisor, and Jason Peckham, Vice President of Resolutions, recently shared their insight with the International Factoring Association to provide an update on the current state of the Employee Retention Credit program.

2025 looks like a big year ahead for lenders. How can you prepare?  With the new year underway, the lending landscape is poised to undergo significant shifts driven by changes …

Tax Guard, a Cogency Global Company and the first provider of real-time IRS tax data services, is announcing it has entered a partnership with San Diego-based Ventures Lending Technologies, a premier end-to-end lending software for banks and mission-based lenders.

Cogency Global, Inc. global provider of corporate compliance and transactional legal support services, announced today that it has acquired Colorado-based Tax Guard, LLC., a leading tax risk due diligence and monitoring services provider, from Falfurrias Capital Partners. 

Tax Guard compared payroll tax deposit data for PPP recipients and non-recipients in order to assess how the PPP could impact credit risks. See our infographic to find out what we discovered.

At Tax Guard, we receive many different questions from our partners. One that continues to pop up is, “My client has been a victim of ID theft on their taxes, …

…and it’s only going to get worse. Not to be an alarmist here, but it’s safe to say that dealing with the IRS on any level has never really been …