As you’re rolling into the Modesto Del Taco drive-through on the corner of Carver Road and Standiford Avenue, if you look through the caddy corner, you will see a normal, boring looking office space. The financial pain caused by the people in that building has been ongoing for years. However, the barracks are now replenished with IRS Revenue Officers again at 1700 Standiford Ave. Suite 340, Modesto, CA 95350.
During the Coronavirus Pandemic, the IRS Modesto office had been reduced to a skeleton staff assigned primarily to IRS compliance and IRS audit issues. However, due to an increase in cost-of-living adjustments for Modesto, the IRS has been able to increase the pay-scale allowed for Modesto IRS Revenue Officers. Basically, the IRS couldn’t afford to pay the Revenue Officers in the Modesto zip code until late 2024. Until the cost-of-living adjustment, IRS enforced collection actions by IRS Revenue Officers against Modesto Taxpayers were unleashed by the Revenue Officers in the IRS Stockton office located at 4643 Quail Lakes Drive, Stockton, CA 95207.
The IRS office located in Stockton is still a fully functional IRS collection Death Star. However, because of the pay-scale update, the Modesto IRS office returns as a fully functional IRS Revenue Officer collection machine. Several of the IRS Stockton Revenue Officers simply moved their golden toasters back to their Modesto digs. So, be careful if you are being hunted by the IRS in Modesto, the person in Del Taco may be coming for you once they are off their lunch break.