The leadership of the IRS Crypto Assets division has changed, with senior official Trish Turner taking charge of the digital asset office.

According to BlockBeats on May 6, reported by Bloomberg, Trish Turner, a senior official at the IRS, will take over as the head of the digital asset office. Trish Turner has been with the IRS for over 20 years and previously served as a senior advisor in the digital asset office. Two key leaders of the IRS’s encryption projects, Seth Wilks and Raj Mukherjee, resigned last Friday and accepted the government’s proposed “DOGE Deferred Compensation Plan.” Both previously came from the encryption industry and joined the IRS in 2024 to develop encryption tax policies and lead the development of the new 1099-DA tax form.