Posted on 04/08/2023 8:32:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel on Thursday provided details about plans to hire armed agents in the agency’s criminal investigations division, amid Republican concerns about a proliferation of gun-toting tax enforcers.
Werfel said in a call with reporters that the share of staff working in the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) unit would not climb above the current level of around 2.6 percent of the IRS’s overall workforce.
There are “no plans to increase” the hiring rate at the IRS-CI unit, Werfel said on the call. “That will stay at its current rate.”
The IRS-CI examines potential criminal activity related to tax crimes and makes recommendations for prosecution to the tax division of the Department of Justice. Agents at the criminal investigations division are authorized to carry guns and use lethal force.
Dubbed “gun-toters,” the armed special agents in the unit are responsible for enforcing those parts of the tax code in which violations amount to crimes, according to former IRS Special Agent Robert Nordlander.
According to the IRS-CI’s annual report (pdf), there were roughly 2,077 special agents in the criminal investigations unit as of the 2022 budget year, which represents around 2.6 percent of the IRS’s entire workforce.
The IRS employed 80,006 full time staffers as of the 2022 budget year, according to the agency’s strategic operating plan released on April 6.
The plan indicates how the IRS plans to use the $80 billion in new funding provided by Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act. The new cash infusion would be used to hire thousands of new employees, improve tax enforcement and customer service, and audit wealthy taxpayers and corporations.
The plan indicates the agency intends to hire nearly 30,000 new full-time employees during the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years, including 8,782 hires in enforcement and 13,883 in taxpayer service.
Assuming no attrition owing to resignation and retirement, that would put the IRS’s total workforce by 2024 at roughly 110,000 employees.
In order to maintain the IRS-CI’s 2.6 percent share of the entire workforce, it would need to bring up the number of armed agents to roughly 2,860 from the current 2,077.
Carissa Cutrell, a public affairs officer at IRS-CI, told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement that the unit is hoping to hire between 300 and 350 special agents this year.
This means that, if the following year another 300–350 agents are hired, that would put the total number between 2,677 and 2,777. That’s roughly 2.4-2.5 percent of the IRS’s overall workforce.
In the mid-1990s, the criminal investigations unit had around 3,500 special agents and Cutrell said they lose between 150 and 175 agents each year owing to retirement and attrition.
The IRS’s strategic plan did not provide hiring estimates beyond 2024. The agency noted that its operating plan will be updated annually and it will adjust its hiring plan.
Republicans have warned that the IRS’s $80 billion cash infusion would be used to hire an “army of 87,000” tax enforcers.
The 87,000 figure comes from a 2021 Treasury Department report (pdf) that estimated that the IRS could hire 86,852 full-time employees over the course of a decade if it were to receive an $80 billion funding boost.
The idea of an “army of 87,000” new tax enforcement agents surged into the spotlight and became an internet meme after Republicans warned that the $80 billion in new IRS funding under the Inflation Reduction Act would squeeze ordinary Americans for “every last penny.”
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Gestapo
When they find the men, they will find the crimes.
Inching ever closer.......
This is one example of how bloated, political government is destroying America. Why we must get nearly all our antibiotics from China, why Russia can manufacture tens of thousands of artillery shells and we can’t, etc...
The IRS will attract 87,000 people into non-productive, wealth-sucking, bureaucratic jobs - people who otherwise might be machinists, nurses, construction workers, farmers, etc....
The Roman dictators used
1. Military
2. Whips
3. Lions in the arena
4. Crucifixion
Give the commie dictators a few more months and they’ll catch up
How is the weaponry more intimidating than the bureaucracy?
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
Whereas our government allows our infrastructure to crumble, and protects destructive rioters.
These billionaires either paid no income taxes or extremely little while the rest of us pay very high taxes compared to our salaries.
George Soros avoids taxes by moving the money to different tax havens.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2015/05/01/geoge-soros-may-owe-billions-in-taxes/?sh=1dce4251108a
Understood.
those parts of the tax code in which violations amount to crimes
That would be all of it.
Don’t be surprised when this all turns out to be a double talk lie.
They are coming for everyone. That change of 1099 required reporting from $20k to $600 is going to really burn a lot of people. The record keeping alone is onerous and costly. Now you have 87,000 new folks in their “customer service” waiting to screw...er.. assist you.
Pay attention to the type of people the IRS will be hiring. Will they be people with degrees in accounting, finance, economics and such. Or, will they be ex special op’s people such as Rangers, marines, delta force types. I’ll answer for you; they will hire from the later. New game in town….
Building an army against the people
Now you know where the leftists fired by the tech firms are going.
To become soldiers in the war against the American citizens.
No. The fired tech folks.that will be their employment pool.
Makes one wonderwhether the firings were planned to make the personnel available to the government.
Since when is the IRS part of the Just us department?
I have a strong suspicion that a lot of these new agents will not be young white males with 120 IQs and accounting degrees from reputable colleges. Just a guess.
My point still stands. OK, so these people were redundant, and effectively non-productive before they joined the IRS. Nonetheless due to massive printed money, massive government debt - we are supporting vast numbers of non-productive people, and its only getting worse. The destruction of a nation/economy does not happen overnight.
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