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IRS overhaul aims for tenfold increase in audits of the wealthy
Washington Compost via MSN ^ | April 6, 2023 | Jacob Bogage

Posted on 04/06/2023 1:16:04 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

The IRS hopes to increase tax audits on the wealthiest taxpayers tenfold under the Biden administration’s plan for the agency, according to a senior administration official and the IRS’s new strategic operating plan.

IRS and Treasury Department officials said Thursday that they will use $80 billion in new funding for the tax service to claw back unpaid balances from high-income earners and complex businesses — restoring audits on those taxpayers to higher rates from more than a decade ago — and boost customer service resources for middle- and low-income tax filers.

The agency plans to digitize its tax-processing pipeline and begin developing a government-backed online tax-filing software with money from the Inflation Reduction Act, one of President Biden’s chief legislative victories, officials announced in a 149-page report.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: audits; irs; strongarm; taxabuse; thieves; thugs
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To: Tell It Right

...because all rich people cheat, that’s why they have any money.


21 posted on 04/06/2023 2:05:52 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: ConservativeInPA

‘Wealthy’ = anyone with an income


22 posted on 04/06/2023 2:15:19 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ConservativeInPA; All
Thank you for referencing that article ConservativeInPA. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"IRS overhaul aims for tenfold increase in audits of the wealthy"


FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

A bunch of unconstitutional federal taxes would be eliminated imo if taxpayers, including rich people, got up to speed with the federal government's constitutionally limited power to appropriate taxes.

Congress is limited to appropriating taxes only for what it can reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses imo.

Also, non-popularly elected bureaucrats, like those running the IRS, should not be making tax rules that citizens are expected to comply with.

After all, the drafters of the Constitution gave qualified citizen voters the express constitutional power to vote "power of the purse" House representatives out of office if taxpayers don't like how the feds are spending our tax dollars which is now a major problem imo.

In other words, post-17th Amendment ratification lawmakers have learned to protect themselves from the wrath of the voters by hiding behind non-elected federal bureaucrats whom lawmaker let get away with stealing state powers to do lawmakers' dirty, unpopular legislative work for them imo.

23 posted on 04/06/2023 2:16:10 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: ConservativeInPA

In FY 22, the odds that someone with an income greater than $1 million would be audited were 1.1%. That is too low a rate of audits.


24 posted on 04/06/2023 2:20:47 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: popdonnelly

—”The wealthy can afford accountant and lawyer firms.”
What is wealthy? Pls, define.

I sat through one full office audit and a couple of correspondence audits.

My accountant said to never write complaint letters to the IRS. I complained about my accounts being subject to seizure. An impoverished student at the time, the IRS wanted taxes from the two and half years in RVN!!! a few years passed.
I did OK on the full and she recommended paying the others because it cost more to fight!
You cannot win.


25 posted on 04/06/2023 2:21:58 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Start with Satan $oro$.


26 posted on 04/06/2023 2:23:54 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: freedumb2003

No, Wealthy means that you are trying to earn a paycheck and feed your family anything but bugs.


27 posted on 04/06/2023 2:28:11 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: babble-on
In FY 22, the odds that someone with an income greater than $1 million would be audited were 1.1%. That is too low a rate of audits.

How about ZERO audits? Wouldn’t that be better?

28 posted on 04/06/2023 2:31:31 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: ConservativeInPA
By wealthy they mean Republicans who donated to Trump. I donated a several grand to his 2016 and 2020 campaigns. I guess I’m toast

Do you know if it’s raining outside?


29 posted on 04/06/2023 2:32:50 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: ConservativeInPA

“it is time to completely abolish the IRS and junk the entire tax code. “

I agree, but Who is going to abolish the IRS? Your elected leaders? Republicans? It’s a dream ..... never going to happen.


30 posted on 04/06/2023 2:40:22 PM PDT by xenia ( “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell)
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To: ConservativeInPA

All those wealthy billionaires who vote republican, are white, go to church, and making over $18,000 a year.


31 posted on 04/06/2023 2:52:16 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I like your plan, but it will never happen.

The US FedGov will never set their wage-slaves free.


32 posted on 04/06/2023 2:53:52 PM PDT by miserare ( Impeach Joe Biden!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

The IRSS’s definition of wealthy: Anyone drawing a private sector paycheck.


33 posted on 04/06/2023 2:59:59 PM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

America’s problems have very little to do with a lack of IRS agents and audits......frigging morons....


34 posted on 04/06/2023 3:00:24 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: ConservativeInPA

💩💩💩💩💩💩💩💩


35 posted on 04/06/2023 3:01:45 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic!)
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To: mewzilla

...anyone donating to MAGA ....


36 posted on 04/06/2023 3:01:50 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: ConservativeInPA

“IRS overhaul aims for tenfold increase in audits of the wealthy”

Whatever they claim IS NOT the law, so they’ll just ignore it. They’ll do what they always do, audit the people who bring them the highest returns for the time spent.


37 posted on 04/06/2023 3:04:23 PM PDT by BobL
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To: ConservativeInPA

“Move to a federal consumption tax on the sale of new consumer goods and services.”

In my opinion, if that did happen it will be because of REPUBLICANS. Unfortunately, there are far too many Republican ‘Purists’ that will only vote for Trump or a ‘pure’ Republican for the Senate.

So it’s hopeless...


38 posted on 04/06/2023 3:06:24 PM PDT by BobL
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To: popdonnelly

Tell me what is wealthy to you?


39 posted on 04/06/2023 3:07:05 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It

HAHAHA!!..And poor don’t cheat and KILL!!!!!


40 posted on 04/06/2023 3:08:59 PM PDT by Osage Orange
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