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In 2021, those making $25,000 or less (often the young and elderly) were audited at a rate five times higher than everyone else. The wealthier you are the more likely it is that you can hire lawyers and accountants to work within the system. There aren't enough millionaires and billionaires in the world to keep a potential new 87,000 IRS employees busy.
80 battalions of new IRS cops
the IRS is looking for special agents who can "carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force
There are other overlooked aspects of the Democrats' IRS expansion. The bill, for instance, strengthens the federal public-sector union monopoly that funds Democrats' political aspirations. IRS and Treasury Department employees spent 353,820 hours engaged in union activism – their PAC gives every cent to the Democrats – in 2019. One can imagine what another 87,000 employees would do for that effort. In the real world, laundering taxpayer funds through unions and using them on political campaigns is called racketeering.
As Liz Wolfe has reported repeatedly in the pages of Reason, none of these assurances live in the text of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) itself. One Republican amendment "to prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service Funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000" was voted down on party lines. You'll just have to take Democrats' word for it.
That's good enough for many news organizations, who have been coughing up "fact-checks"
1) The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicts so.
2) The "tax gap" that the IRS seeks to close includes large amounts from the under-$400,000 club.
3) The Biden administration keeps wiggling when confronted with criticism about beefed-up enforcement.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget has been cut by 18 percent since 2010, after adjusting for inflation, and the agency has lost roughly 13,000 employees — around 14 percent of its workforce. These cuts have harmed customer service, frustrated honest taxpayers, and undermined critical enforcement efforts to combat tax avoidance and growing identity theft.
originally posted by: Klassified
New IRS Will Have 'More Soldiers Than the Israeli Army' Says Sen. Kennedy
Abolish the IRS and abolish the 16th amendment.