IRS

The IRS is canceling its Monday furlough day because it has managed to cut costs enough to avoid it.

Expensive conferences are falling out of favor with federal agencies.

What does the ongoing IRS scandal mean for the IRS brand and what, if anything, can be done to shore it up?

Thanks to sequestration, roughly 115,000 federal workers at the IRS, EPA, HUD and OMB get an unpaid holiday. Does anybody really notice that the offices are closed on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend?

As a result of sequester, the IRS, HUD, the EPA and Office of Management and Budget become part of the biggest wave of government office closures since 1995.

Daniel Werfel starts Wednesday as the new acting administrator of the Internal Revenue Service, succeeding Steven T. Miller, who resigned under pressure last week.

Check out weekend reading picks (not about the IRS scandal) from our Weekly Wrap.

Revelations the IRS gave extra scrutiny to conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status has raised their profile, and for some, their fundraising.

The IRS was already in trouble even before this current scandal