Overview

• The IRS is weighing whether to end translations for more than 100 tax forms, free phone and in-person interpreter services, and its multilingual website and social-media accounts.
• The proposed cuts stem from President Trump’s March order naming English the sole federal language and Attorney General Pam Bondi’s July memo directing agencies to phase out multilingual resources.
• A short-term extension for IRS phone interpreter services, renewed in March, is set to expire before year-end, triggering a formal reassessment of language support contracts.
• Legal experts and civil-rights groups argue that the administration lacks authority to impose an official language and warn that eliminating services would violate the IRS’s nondiscrimination policy.
• Previous reductions in language services and fears of enforcement cooperation have led to sharp drops in tax filings by immigrant communities with limited English proficiency.