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As IRS prepares to double in size, it isn't the billionaires who should be worried
Washington Examiner via MSN ^ | 8/03/22 | Jake Leahy

Posted on 08/03/2022 4:40:58 PM PDT by Libloather

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 appears to have a good shot at being signed into law. If Senate Democrats can get Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) to join Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), the bill will have the necessary 50 votes to pass through the reconciliation process.

Let's hope that never happens. The plan would hurt working-class taxpayers and small-business owners across America. The act will introduce a "corporate alternative minimum tax," which will compel a 15% tax on corporate income. It will increase the taxes imposed on certain high-income earners. Finally, it will step up enforcement mechanisms within the IRS.

While most people rightfully do not want to see tax hikes during a recession, few realize the negative impact expanded enforcement would have. The White House said it intends to make the "top 1%" pay for expanded government programs. But expanding IRS enforcement won’t affect just the wealthy. Instead, it’ll just end up hurting the middle class.

The additional funding for the IRS adds up to $80 billion over the next decade — essentially doubling the size of Uncle Sam’s debt collector and putting 87,000 new IRS agents into action. The result will be increased audits on small businesses and middle-class taxpayers across the country. While there are over 600,000 audits annually, which disproportionately affect low-income earners, under the new beefed-up enforcement plan, the IRS will be able to perform 1.2 million additional audits. Surely those million-plus audits won’t just be billionaires!

This massive investment in enforcement infrastructure comes at a time when even getting in contact with the IRS can seem daunting. According to the IRS itself, the agency only answered roughly 10% of all phone calls received during the previous tax year.

Nor is stepped-up enforcement likely to raise the $700 billion projected. Nor is it likely to...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: arizona; billionaires; creepstate; deepstate; irs; kyrstensinema; middleclass; policestate; singlepartystate; smallbusiness; taxes; theft
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To: butlerweave

How do you do transactions with all the “Green” low carbon rolling blackouts?
That is a question for animals in Democrat cities?


21 posted on 08/03/2022 5:26:01 PM PDT by rellic
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To: Libloather
"The result will be increased audits on small businesses and middle-class Conservative taxpayers across the country."

Fixed it.
22 posted on 08/03/2022 5:33:37 PM PDT by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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To: Sarcazmo

Either way, why does the IRS need so much ammo?


23 posted on 08/03/2022 5:38:18 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Libloather

I don’t think they’ll find it easy to recruit 87,000 new IRS agents.


24 posted on 08/03/2022 5:40:57 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: SkyDancer

Yeah, I know. Remember Obama buying all that ammo? It was 2 billion rounds or something. I would sure like to know if all the fed agencies continued to procure their training ammo as scheduled. I bet they did and the 2b rounds were extra.

I sure would like to know what that was about... and if it’s still sitting around somewhere.


25 posted on 08/03/2022 5:41:50 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Libloather; All

“The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022...”

The vast majority of we Proletariat need to remember that whatever Mother Government names a bill, the OPPOSITE WILL HAPPEN.

Live BELOW your means. Pay off ALL debt; owe nothing to any lender. Cut up your credit cards. Sell everything you own that isn’t nailed down if you need to. Knuckle Down and Buckle Up; it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

Plan accordingly, FRiends!


26 posted on 08/03/2022 5:43:01 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: rellic

They will probably post an agent next to my tip jar at work . . .


27 posted on 08/03/2022 5:55:29 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: SkyDancer

They need .45 so it can be confiscated by civilian 1911 enthusiasts.

😄


28 posted on 08/03/2022 5:58:32 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: SkyDancer

>>>Either way, why does the IRS need so much ammo?<<<

Eventually we’ll be asking why they need so many excavators . . .


29 posted on 08/03/2022 5:59:12 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: laplata

That is what I was thinking...they already cannot find people, and now 87,000 more????


30 posted on 08/03/2022 6:00:27 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: Libloather

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.


31 posted on 08/03/2022 6:18:59 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: Libloather

They intend to get back every red cent ( plus more) of the checks they handed out.


32 posted on 08/03/2022 6:20:05 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Ken H

Beat me to it.


33 posted on 08/03/2022 6:20:18 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump /DeSantis)
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To: Valpal1

Tragic.


34 posted on 08/03/2022 6:22:35 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: butlerweave

>and have spyware Biden Digital Bucks

Much worse than that. It will tell you what, when, where and how much you can buy. The why part will determine your social credit score. Bad boy? Sorry, no biden bucks for you. Eat your bugs.


35 posted on 08/03/2022 6:26:37 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: Arkansas Tider

Thanks for your service Ark Tider …..


36 posted on 08/03/2022 6:28:42 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: goodnesswins

And how incompetent most of the 87,000 would be comes into play. It could end up a cluster ___-.


37 posted on 08/03/2022 6:35:33 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: Libloather

Still building that civilian Army Obama was bragging about.


38 posted on 08/03/2022 6:38:00 PM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: laplata

Oh yes they will, because they won’t be looking for skills or work ethic. They’ll be recruiting BLM and Antifa.


39 posted on 08/03/2022 6:43:08 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Libloather

If they double maybe someone can answer the phone within several hours.


40 posted on 08/03/2022 6:44:09 PM PDT by Raycpa
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