The Internal Revenue Service said in a statement Monday that operations are not being disrupted in the midst of a partial government shutdown that was initiated last month but is due to end soon after the House passed a measure to do so.
“The Internal Revenue Service will continue operations under the current lapse in appropriations until further notice, using funding from 2022 legislation,” the federal tax revenue agency said in the statement.
It added that people should “expect IRS operations to continue as normal with IRS offices maintaining regular hours, on-line self-service help tools available, and other services continuing as usual.”
“Taxpayers also should continue to meet any federal tax filing or payment obligations as normal,” the IRS advised.
Tax season started on Jan. 26 and ends on April 15, the agency said. Multiple new tax law provisions went into effect under the One Big Beautiful Bill that was signed into law by President Donald Trump last year.
Among the new provisions was the creation of Trump Accounts for children who are born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028, according to the IRS. It added that taxpayers will now use “the new Schedule 1-A to claim recently enacted tax deductions, such as no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on car loan interest and/or the enhanced deduction for seniors.”
The agency said it expects around 164 million individual tax returns to be filed in 2026.
“We’re [going to] see substantial refunds for working Americans,” Bessent said on Fox News’s “Hannity” in late January. “They’re [going to] change their withholding and have bigger take-home pay every two weeks, every month. So, it’s really an exciting time.”
The government shutdown was initiated on 12 a.m. ET on Jan. 31 after a lapse in funding for several government departments, impacting agencies such as the Department of War and Department of Homeland Security. It went into effect just over two months after the end of a previous government shutdown that lasted between Oct. 1, 2025, and Nov. 12, 2025, the longest in U.S. history.
But the House passed a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package that had already cleared the Senate to end the partial government shutdown Tuesday afternoon.
The measure funds most of the federal government through Sept. 30, while providing the Department of Homeland Security with short-term funding for two weeks. Lawmakers will return to negotiate potential changes for Immigration and Customs Enforcement as Democrats demand more restrictions on its operations.
In a post on Truth Social, the president wrote that lawmakers should pass a package because “we need to get the Government open ... WITHOUT DELAY” and added in his post that if the bill is passed in the House, he’d sign it immediately.
“We will work together in good faith to address the issues that have been raised, but we cannot have another long, pointless, and destructive Shutdown that will hurt our Country so badly,” Trump wrote.
