The IRS on Friday lost two prominent directors working on Crypto Pahal, Seth Wilks and Raj Mukherjee, when they accepted the resignation of the resignation directed by the Department of the government.
Wilks and Mukherjee, who both went to IRS from the Crypto industry, are technically still employees with IRS for the next few months, but they are on payment administrative leave till Friday afternoon, familiar with the situation by two people. Through Donald Trump’s administration, Dogi, Decisioned resignation offered For a wide range of federal employees earlier this year.
Wilks, who was a vice president in the first taxbit, and Mukherjee, who was the first consent and binance.us’, both joined the IRS Digital Asset Initiative in February 2024, and they were, and they were, and they were, and they were, and they were, and they were, and they were, and they were, and they were. Working with Helping IRS to create a better approach to crypto taxation, including reporting, compliance and building programs for Crypto to lead agency’s efforts to build and coordinate with industry. He worked on the 1099-DA tax form shared in the last summer to assist American individuals along with filing taxes tied to digital asset transactions.
The pair oversees parts of the agency’s efforts to draft tax rules for the crypto industry.
The IRS finalized such a rule that implements some data collection requirements on decentralized finance (DEFI) brokers on the pre -biden administration’s vanning days. In a joint resolution signed by Trump, the rule was overturned by the Congress earlier this year under the Congress’s Review Act.
Wilks was the Executive Director of IRS of Digital Asset Strategy and Development, while Mukherjee was the Executive Director of Digital Asset Office.
The two people who spoke to Coindesk said that the two officials had accepted voluntary procurement, but the resignation of these postponed resignations came ahead with the expected cuts for IRS employees.
More than 20,000 IRS employees signed for the deferred resignation program, the new York Times Reported last month, these employees were placed on administrative leave through September.
