More than 500 IRS employees have been dispatched to help with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief call lines, and agency investigative agents have been sent into devastated areas to help with search and rescue and other relief work after Hurricane Helene.
The IRS employees answer the FEMA calls and gather initial information to help disaster victims get federal relief. A team of 16 special agents were initially deployed last week to the Tampa, Florida, area to help search-and-rescue teams.
During the weekend, the IRS team moved to North Carolina to assist with door-to-door search efforts. IRS-CI agents are also assisting FEMA with security and protection for relief teams and their equipment.
On Tuesday, the IRS
The IRS will also not impose a penalty when dyed diesel fuel with a sulfur content that does not exceed 15 parts-per-million is sold for use or used on the highway throughout Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina and in the several counties in Florida, Tennessee and Virginia that have qualified for relief.
