Over 50 new job openings in the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will be made available in Clarksdale following an announcement from the U.S. Commissioner of the IRS, Charles Rettig.
On Thursday, Rettig released that more than 100 positions would be opening in the near future in the Mississippi Delta as a part of the 87,000 new agent openings introduced by President Joe Biden in August.
“These jobs are to be filled here in the city of Clarksdale,” Clarksdale Mayor Chuck Espy. “All of these are brand new jobs with the IRS through the President’s initiative to hire over 80,000 new employees with the IRS.”
Clarksdale is expected to get a little over half of the 100 IRS jobs with Greenville getting the rest.
“We are at an all-time high of recruiting new jobs and industries to come to Clarksdale,” Espy added.
During Rettig’s speech, he explained that Clarksdale was picked primary due to the department’s goal of tracking where the United States Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) was going. The EITC is a refundable tax credit for working individuals in low to moderate-income households.
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