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Biden’s IRS ‘enforcement’ budget jumps 919%
Biden’s IRS ‘enforcement’ budget jumps 919% - Washington Examiner
Video EmbedThe Internal Revenue Service saw its take from taxpayers rise over 19% last year and its enforcement budget boosted by 919%.Making good to fatten up the tax collection agency’s enforcement team that targets taxpayers, a new audit said that appropriations from the
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The Internal Revenue Service saw its take from taxpayers rise over 19% last year and its enforcement budget boosted by 919%.
Making good to fatten up the tax collection agency’s enforcement team that targets taxpayers, a new audit said that appropriations from the Democratically controlled Congress jumped from $5 billion to $51 billion. When “operations support” was added in, the total was $80 billion, said the just-released review.
The Government Accountability Office also found that the agency collected far more from taxpayers in the just-ended fiscal year than the year before. It took $4.3 trillion, up from $3.5 trillion. Individual taxpayers funded 88% of the total collected last fiscal year.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden signaled that he planned to nominate Danny Werfel, a former acting IRS commissioner who served during the Obama administration, to head the agency.
He will replace IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, who left in October.
The Democratic head of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight used the announcement to blast the agency during the Trump era.
“For years now under a Trump appointee, the IRS has been mired in chaos and failure. Americans have lost trust in our tax system because there’s one set of rules for the powerful and another set for everyone else. After Congress made a big investment in fixing the IRS, the agency needs a leader who can answer the phones, get refund checks out fast, and crack down on big business tax cheats. I look forward to hearing from Mr. Werfel on his plans and acting together for tax fairness. It’s time to make the IRS work for Americans again,” said Rep. Bill Pascrell.