More than $80 billion for President Joe Biden’s plan to double the size of the IRS workforce by adding 87,000 new agents would be rescinded by a proposal introduced on Sept. 26 by Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chair Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana. The $80 billion was included in the recently enacted $739 billion Inflation…
GOP Study Committee Chairman’s Proposal Would Rescind Biden’s 87,000 New IRS Agents
Senate Republicans Demand Details on How IRS Is Spending Its $80 Billion Budget Boost
Senate Finance Committee Republicans are demanding that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig provide detailed answers about how his agency is spending the extra $80 billion it got under President Joe Biden’s 2023 budget. In a Sept. 22 letter previewing the toughened oversight the IRS will likely face if voters return Republicans to a Senate majority in…
Greater Danger Means Less Pay
September 21, 2022
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Commentary When President Joe Biden and the Democrats proposed hiring 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service agents (but no new Border Patrol agents) it was a pretty good indication that they were more interested in policing Americans than stopping illegal immigration and securing the border. But if you look a little deeper, you find that this…
Tight Job Market Sees IRS Facing Uphill Battle to Hire 87,000 Staff
September 19, 2022
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The Internal Revenue Service’s plan to massively expand its staff has become more difficult with the tight U.S. labor market. The Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” gave the IRS $80 billion over ten years to boost its personnel in order to collect more in unpaid taxes and upgrade its computer systems. The bill also sought to invest…
Senate Republicans Introduce Bill to Block ‘Super-Sized IRS’ from Targeting Middle-Class Americans
September 15, 2022
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A group of Republican U.S. senators introduced a new bill on Sept. 11 designed to curtail the growing power of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The bill, which is sponsored by Senators James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Mike Crapo (R-ID), responds to the Inflation Reduction Act signed into law in August, which allots $80 billion of additional funding…
Treasury Watchdog Agrees to Investigate Status of Tax Cheaters Working for the IRS: Ernst
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said on Sept. 14 that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has agreed to update a 2019 investigation that found hundreds of IRS employees with overdue or unpaid tax bills. Ernst made public an Aug. 30 letter she received from TIGTA J. Russell George agreeing with her request that he…
Treasury Watchdog Agrees to Investigate Status of Tax Cheaters Working for IRS: Ernst
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said on Sept. 14 that the Treasury inspector general for tax administration (TIGTA) has agreed to update a 2019 investigation that found hundreds of IRS employees with overdue or unpaid tax bills. Ernst made public an Aug. 30 letter she received from TIGTA J. Russell George agreeing with her request that he…
Ted Cruz Calls to Defund ‘Biden’s Army of IRS Agents’
September 14, 2022
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has called on his Republican colleagues in Congress to block funding for what he described as “Biden’s army of IRS agents” that the GOP has warned would be used to target Americans earning less than $400,000 a year. Cruz made the remark in a Sept. 13 statement on social media, which came…
Sen. Grassley Wants to Know Why Treasury, IRS, DOJ, Are Silent on Confidential Tax Return Leak
September 13, 2022
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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wants to know why, more than a year later, the Department of Treasury, Department of Justice (DOJ), and IRS have yet to explain to America who leaked highly confidential tax return data on hundreds of Americans to a news outlet. “More than a year ago, the news website ProPublica began publishing…
IRS to Shell Out $1.2 Billion to Taxpayers in Forgiven Penalty Fees, Here’s Who Qualifies
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is sending $1.2 Billion in refund or credits to more than a million Americans who filed their taxes late in the first months of the pandemic, according to an announcement on Sept. 12. Americans who missed the deadline for their 2019 or 2020 tax returns, and who have already paid…
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