The IRS will be more like the NSA after Biden’s changes

[Geee]

The Hill

President Biden and the Democrats are setting up the IRS as the next three-letter intelligence agency, with the rapid expansion of the service’s power and payroll. Changes resulting from the improperly-named Inflation Reduction Act have positioned the Internal Revenue Service as a potent political weapon — one that Democrats may not be the only ones to wield. 

The Patriot Act and post-9/11 surveillance state showed just how swiftly and uncontrollably seemingly good intentions can balloon into a statist’s dream. Combine the expansion of National Security Agency-style collection of data with a supercharged, super-staffed IRS and you get the worst of both worlds. The role of the reformed IRS will be not to squeeze CEOs and eight-figure corporate functionaries, but to get every dime from ordinary people via excessive auditing. 

Bureaucrats at the agency realize that the wealthy and large companies have tax attorneys on retainer or could easily hire one; this is precisely why the IRS audits the poor at five times the rate of the rest of the population. The resulting increased revenue from the working and middle classes is enough for the Congressional Budget Office to assess the IRS’s audit provisions as a $20 billion tax hike on the middle and working classes. The expansion of the IRS’s bureaucratic state will result in the largest tax increase on ordinary people in decades. :snip:

[Valin]

8 minutes ago, Geee said:

The Hill

President Biden and the Democrats are setting up the IRS as the next three-letter intelligence agency, with the rapid expansion of the service’s power and payroll. Changes resulting from the improperly-named Inflation Reduction Act have positioned the Internal Revenue Service as a potent political weapon — one that Democrats may not be the only ones to wield. 

 

 

IRS to Spend Only 4% of Allocated Funds on Service Despite Promises

Foreign Desk News

August 31, 2022

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will use just $3.2 billion, or 4 percent of the $80 billion windfall from the Inflation Reduction Act signed by President Joe Biden, to improve taxpayer service, according to recent reports. 

The latest development appears to conflict directly against the announcement by Treasury Department officials who vowed that Americans should expect a “significantly higher level of service in the next filing season.”

According to reports, the small amount of funds the IRS will use from the Inflation Reduction Act to improve taxpayer service contrasts with the $46 billion or 58 percent devoted to enhancing what some describe as “monitoring and compliance.” While the Treasury Department and White House officials have defended such actions, economists and tax-focused groups like the National Taxpayers Union Foundation and others are not convinced of the agency’s promises. 

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