The Internal Revenue Service has reversed course on planned staff reductions, telling employees it will halt layoffs and invite workers who previously took buyouts or were displaced to return. The agency, which had seen its headcount fall by almost a quarter through buyouts, resignations and firings, is also launching a broader hiring campaign as it gears up for the coming tax season. Separately, Trish Turner stepped down on 22 August as chief of the IRS’s digital-assets enforcement unit. Turner, who led efforts to police cryptocurrency transactions, is leaving for the private sector. Her departure comes as the agency prepares for a wave of crypto-related filings and enforcement actions that will test its expanded manpower.