A newly empowered Internal Revenue Service is one of the keys to the sweeping climate, health care and tax bill Senate Democrats hope to pass this week — with billions of dollars in new funds for the agency so it can collect money for the federal government by going after higher-income tax cheats.
Congress and the White House, when led by Republicans, have starved the IRS of resources for so long, experts say, that even with an influx of $80 billion in new funding, the agency’s ability to transform itself is far from assured. “Part of this is not expecting miraculous rates of return. It’s about stopping the decline,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the conservative think tank American Action Forum and a former director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Vote!!
We had a good run folks but the end is near! There is but one hope!
At $80Billion? Typical IRS making dimes work like nickels 🙄 DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica
Typical leftist gaslight. Take the unprecedented expansion of the most egregiously oppressive federal agency and wrap it in halfwit social ideology to justify it. Wonder how all of the illegals getting paid cash are going to make out…WaPo clown show🤡
Total garbage paper. Not fit to even line a bird cage. The left weaponized the IRS and they will do it again.
False. They WILL be going after middle class and small business. Over 50% of audits last year were 75k and less.
May you get audited then
This is a damn scam. Good god!
WTF
Are 87,000 going to collect enough in taxes to pay their own salaries?
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No
Plot twist: nothing changes, tax loopholes continue.
Did the IRS write this for you guys? 87k agents needed to target 1.8% of the taxpaying public. They're lying to you, this increase is going to target the middle class.
BULLSHIT
Such BS! The wealthy and corporations can afford lawyers to defend them from aggressive IRS auditors! The middle class and small businesses cannot afford lawyers to defend them from the auditors. Guess who will be targeted by the IRS!! What other budget gets increased 5-6x?
This is pretty disgusting. Democrats have no purpose other than try and get their grubby incompetent hands on other people's money just to squander it on lunacy.
If you make more than $0 dollars, the IRS is coming for you.
Garbage newspaper
Go after ALL tax cheats! Those of us who pay salute going after cheaters
It's about time we had staff to go after the billionaires and companies were cheating the system
With thousands of new IRS agents - most returns will be audited - costing big money in fees paid to CPAs and attorneys for defense
The will be going after the mother that sold her babies second hand clothes and got paid through PayPal and Venmo. You are not fooling anyone.
Lois Lerner agrees. With all those guns and ammunition, the IRS_CI replacing the Woke FBI ? Yes, Frau Lerner did use DemocratImmunity.
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When all the IRS does is punish poor people trying the same grift that corporations do with ease, I doubt this.
Dems keep digging their hole come November. This is fantastic
This has to be the worst NFT shill.
Funny that the Democrats aren’t emphasizing the 80,000 new IRS agents in the Inflation Reduction Act. I wonder why.
If you think they’re going after “higher income” cheats, you’re in for a big surprise.
And thats why you are fakenews/a democrat cum rag, i am no longer interested in participating in the fiction that the is a legitimate media outlet, or that its discredited journalists are dispassionate fact-finders intent on bringing readers objective news.
TaxationIsTheft
So that means before that the IRS wasn’t doing a good job.
By all means we don't need those waiters waitresses bar tenders.door men cab drivers janitors .flower deliverers on Valentine's day. The I.r.s. can give all their agents guns and bullets that Obama purchased as president. Yup those cheaters better report every tip
You lie. They’re going after us. Democrats want us to suffer. Then they can claim they want to help us
Please stop this. RandPaul RepThomasMassie RepGuthrie LeaderMcConnell
This is a blatant lie. Elites will be untouched. They want the rob the middle class to pay for liberal fantasies
🖕the entire DemoRat party
After *years* of defunding by GOP, the agency will be able to get back to normal.
Tax cheats LOL. Like the owner of your paper? Speaking of climate change how many emissions his PJ, space launches and mega yacht emit again? They will be going after the middle class but keep the lies going loser
Like your owner?
This is so much BS. These IRS agents will be going after middle clas people and will be weaponized by the evil democrats to go after conservatives. The democrat party is evil and corrupt to the core
Havr fun all you servers, bartenders, Uber drivers, and side hustle folks. You’ll be the first ones they hit.
“Higher income tax cheats” who are really just reach people who use CPAs and take full advantage of the tax code. But the IRS will be targeting the gig economy worker. Many who are paid cash directly they’ll also be targeting small businesses.
Lie much?
The problem with this is that the irs is going to lose to the rich bc they pay tax experts to file their taxes within the tax code AND lawyers to fight the irs. This is aimed at regular ppl and business owners making 80k-200k who lack the resources to oppose them.
Every single time government has been expanded, it’s been weaponized against us in some fashion. But I have a good feeling that this time, things will be different.
This is a direct attack on the American people and a continuation of their American last agenda. ResistTyranny
You mean going after small business. You think this is good? It's known that's what will happen.
So 80 billion is going to fund more bureaucrats who will never go away & will do as little as possible to collect their salaries & pensions as all government workers do. Sure that must be the best solution.
Correction: Unpaid taxes by tax evaders.
Liars. This only thing this monstrosity is going to destroy is the middle class.
Gaslighting to the max. You people really want mass civil unrest.
A bigger IRS will be a political IRS.
Only 1000 billionaires and they need 87,000 new agents and 5 million rounds of ammunition? Sure…. HitlerBrownShirts
Put 50 of them just for congress. That is all you need.
This is wrong on so many levels
Disgusting
87,000 jobs. Time to apply! 😎
While Americans are struggling to buy food, the Biden Administration spends millions of dollars on things that will not help them.
Tax and Spend. And now more Brownshirts for Biden's NAZI party.
Keep chugging that fascist dong, WaPo
The IRS that the last democrat president weaponized against his political enemies? That one?
Alright…so we just ehh…burn all of these…
They need to focus on the so called non profits and forget individuals who take advantage of loop holes the government created. Tons are non profits including higher Ed are money making machines that pay no taxes.
I doubt there are 87,000 new Billionaire Tax Cheats. But I bet there are 87,000 more Small Businesses and Middle Income Americans preparing for an Audit.
Narcing as journalism.
Bull
“GOP policies…drove the IRS into more audits of poorer taxpayers by depriving the agency of the resources it would have taken to go after wealthier targets who shelter potentially much higher sums”
😂 okay sure
They don't need 80 billion to go after the rich. They need it to squeeze the middle class as much as possible.
Higher income now means anyone making more than $24k a year. We’re coming for you.
😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡 Go after higher-income tax cheats? Sure it will. It’s to attack anyone the Democrats want.
Let’s not focus on tax cheats. The IRS has been underfunded for decades, and can’t keep up with the increasing workload just processing paper tax returns. They take up to 6 months to process!
It's a payoff, the IRS workers are unionized. They think if they can get 87k more agents they will continue to stack the deck in their favor
Horrible.
IRS should never audit anyone who makes less than $200K. IRSnews IRS_CI
Yeah “high income” like whoever makes over 20K
This is the end of America
FO WP
The IRS is the new SS - literally the enemy of the people
They won’t be going after cheats! We have all ready seen they are for the criminals!! They will be after the honest people and our churches!!
Can we first have them investigate where all the millions we are donating to other countries is going?
Yea right it will be used to go after middle class and rich conservatives.
Insanity. Audit the poor while the corrupt politicians and bureaucrats continues to steal the tax money.
“by going after higher-income tax cheats.” In other words, they’re coming after the middle class.
What if - and hear me out - we first collect a few bucks from the nearly 50% of the country who pays $0 federal income tax? Nah you’re right - Tax me harder daddy!
Government out of control
Suppose Trump will ever release the taxes he promised to release in 2014?
Yes see how many votes thats going to lose you. Go ahead and see the consequences.
Ok, actual question, I doubt a trained economist will happen by, but, why do we need federal tax? What I mean is, money is backed by treasury bonds, why can't we designate say 30% of those bonds for public use, and the rest as private, giving the same funds without tax.
Destruction by democrats (Marxists) of small and medium-sized businesses (middle class) is reaching the finish line
I hope there's enough park benches for all of us to live on...
That’s why Cruz and his minions want the IRS the size of a postage stamp. So that there are not enough staff to audits affluent tax cheats.
Never thought I'd side with IRS yet here I am.
87K agents will target political enemies of the Left, small businesses and the Middle Class. American Stazi
Lmao, yeah, I'm sure those agents definitely won't disproportionately target low-income taxpayers that can't afford expensive tax accountants.
Amen!
I’m so tired of the propaganda paper.
BULLSHIT....they are coming for the middle class.....
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They’re going after the middle class and everyone knows it.
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