Melanie Krause has been appointed acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
The Department of the Treasury said Tuesday Krause will succeed IRS Deputy Commissioner Doug O’Donnell who is retiring on Feb. 28. She will simultaneously assume the role of deputy commissioner. This development was announced by Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.
Who Is Melanie Krause?
Krause served as chief operating officer for less than a year before her promotion. In this role, she directed the day-to-day operations of several departments and services with more than 100,000 personnel in over 500 locations nationwide. This included major operational divisions such as the Chief Financial Office; Chief Risk Office; Facilities Management and Security Services; Human Capital Office; Office of Chief Procurement, Privacy, Governmental Liaison and Disclosure; and Research, Applied Analytics and Statistics, or RAAS.
The C-suite executive previously worked as the deputy commissioner of operations support, chief data and analytics officer and acting deputy commissioner for services and enforcement.
Before joining the IRS, Krause spent over seven years at the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General. She held leadership roles of increasing responsibility, including assistant inspector general for management and administration, deputy assistant inspector general for healthcare inspections, director of hotline coordination and associate director of clinical review management.
Krause also served as senior auditor of healthcare at the Government Accountability Office. She began her career in the medical industry as a nurse clinician for Dane County.
O’Donnell is retiring after almost four decades at the tax agency.
