IRS’ Crypto Leads Are Leaving the Agency After Accepting DOGE Deals
The IRS lost two key directors working on crypto initiatives, Seth Wilks and Raj Mukherjee, on Friday after they accepted deferred resignation offers directed by the Department of Government Efficiency.
Wilks and Mukherjee, who both went to the IRS from the crypto industry, are technically still employees with the IRS for the next few months but they are on paid administrative leave as of Friday afternoon, two people familiar with the situation told CoinDesk. President Donald Trump’s administration, through DOGE, offered deferred resignations to a wide array of federal employees earlier this year.
Wilks, who was previously a vice president at TaxBit, and Mukherjee, who was previously ConsenSys and Binance.US’ head of tax, both joined the…
