IRS digital‑assets chief Trish Turner resigns after roughly three months
Trish Turner has stepped down as head of the Internal Revenue Service’s digital assets division after roughly three months in the role, ending a career at the agency that spanned more than two decades.
In a LinkedIn post marking her departure, Turner reflected on her long IRS service and said she was proud of the programs and groundwork her team built as digital assets moved from niche to mainstream.
Turner did not name her next employer in that post, but Bloomberg Tax reported she will become tax director at the crypto tax firm Crypto Tax Girl, and the company’s founder confirmed Turner will join the firm.
Her resignation comes about three months after she was appointed to lead the IRS crypto unit in May. It follows the departures of two earlier leaders — Sulolit “Raj” Mukherjee and Seth Wilks — who each lasted around a year in the role.
The move arrives amid heightened focus on cryptocurrency taxation and oversight in the U.S., including proposals to shrink the IRS workforce, scheduled congressional attention to digital-asset tax policy, and recent oversight recommendations about how the agency handles crypto in criminal investigations.
Cointelegraph reported it reached out to Turner for comment but had not received a response by the time the story published.
