IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: IRS Workforce Turnover Part of Tea-Party Scrutiny Fallout. “Most senior officials in the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division have either retired or been pushed out following the agency’s disclosure earlier this year that the office was giving extra attention to some of the anti-tax Tea Party groups seeking tax exempt status, Owens said at a Nov. 15 conference in Washington, and he expressed concern about the loss of seasoned personnel, Bloomberg BNA reported.” They don’t seem like much of a loss to me.