- Trish Turner has resigned as head of the IRS digital assets division after only three months in the role.
- Turner is moving to the private sector and will become tax director at the crypto tax firm Crypto Tax Girl.
- Her departure comes after recent executive exits from the IRS’s digital assets unit.
- US lawmakers and agencies are currently focusing on digital asset tax rules and IRS workforce changes.
- Recent policy actions include a proposal to reduce the IRS workforce and a congressional resolution affecting crypto reporting requirements.
Trish Turner has stepped down as leader of the United States Internal Revenue Service’s digital assets division after roughly three months in the position. Her departure marks another change in the IRS team in charge of overseeing crypto and digital assets.
Turner, who worked for the IRS for over 20 years, announced her exit in a LinkedIn post on Friday. In her message, she described her work as navigating “complex challenges” and helping to build the IRS’s digital asset strategies. According to Bloomberg Tax, Turner will join Crypto Tax Girl as its new tax director. Crypto Tax Girl founder Laura Walter confirmed the news and noted Turner will help advise clients in a time of big changes in crypto tax and compliance.
The IRS digital assets division has seen other leadership moves in recent months. Turner had taken over in May after previous leaders Sulolit “Raj” Mukherjee and Seth Wilks, both hired from the private sector, left after about a year. Economist Timothy Peterson commented on social media, calling Turner’s move, “Trish Turner left the Dark Side to become a Crypto Jedi Knight.”
Turner’s departure comes as the U.S. government looks closely at cryptocurrency tax policy. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) proposed in March to cut the IRS workforce by 20%. The House Committee on Ways and Means, along with the Oversight Subcommittee, recently announced a hearing to focus on setting a tax framework for digital assets. Earlier in July, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration advised reforms to the IRS’s criminal investigation division for better digital asset oversight. In April, President Donald Trump signed a resolution cancelling an earlier rule from the Biden administration that would have required DeFi protocols to report user transactions to the IRS.
Cointelegraph requested comment from Turner but had not received a response at the time of publication.
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