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IRS Is 48 Days Late To Issue Report Telling American Public How It'll Spend New $80 Billion
Reason.com ^ | 4.7.2023 10:20 AM | LIZ WOLFE

Posted on 04/09/2023 6:52:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The agency’s new report tells us practically nothing of significance.

Last year, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave the newly-enriched IRS a February 17 deadline for releasing a report detailing how the agency would use its $80 billion cash infusion—the largest in the agency's history—over the next 10 years.

The IRS, notoriously keen on imposing deadlines on everyone else, blew past its own, finally releasing the report yesterday—48 days late, for those counting.

Unfortunately, very little information of substance was contained within.

Though it's talked a big game about improving taxpayer services (customer service will soon become "world class," the agency claims), a paltry $3.2 billion will be devoted to that line item while $45.6 billion will go toward enforcement—some men with guns, but mostly auditors tasked with closing the tax gap, which is the difference between the amount owed and the amount that actually ends up in government coffers. The IRS, as of 2021, had a little under 80,000 employees; with the new cash infusion, the agency will hire almost 9,000 additional employees to work in enforcement, with another almost 14,000 in taxpayer services by the end of FY 2025.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irs

1 posted on 04/09/2023 6:52:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is there a line item for more ammo?


2 posted on 04/09/2023 6:55:03 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They should lose 5% per month unless yhey have an extension!


3 posted on 04/09/2023 6:55:23 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Carriage Hill

How about a tax refund?


4 posted on 04/09/2023 6:58:47 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’d get fined for being 48 days late on filing my taxes, The IRS...not so much.


5 posted on 04/09/2023 7:01:01 AM PDT by dblshot
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do we get Penalties and Interest.... just asking for Harry Reid’s friend....


6 posted on 04/09/2023 7:03:30 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Buying votes? Funding Soros?
I wonder.


7 posted on 04/09/2023 7:08:12 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Original hunter biden artwork for every field office?


8 posted on 04/09/2023 7:10:33 AM PDT by farmguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Answer: “That’s classified”, aka nunayabeeswax, fool.


9 posted on 04/09/2023 7:12:39 AM PDT by bigbob
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“I’d get fined for being 48 days late on filing my taxes, The IRS...not so much.”

Last year I received a letter from the IRS saying I owed them an additional $1.87. I sent a check and they cashed it.
Several months later they sent me a check for $1.87.


10 posted on 04/09/2023 7:16:06 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Eccl 10:2

Bite your lip, and don’t hold your breath.
Heh...


11 posted on 04/09/2023 7:25:54 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

But not 48 days late in auditing your tax return lol.


12 posted on 04/09/2023 7:38:50 AM PDT by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

all your cats are belong to us.


13 posted on 04/09/2023 7:45:05 AM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They should be audited, after a 5:00am S.W.A.T. raid . . .


14 posted on 04/09/2023 7:58:43 AM PDT by MCSETots
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ready to kill the middleclass with audits


15 posted on 04/09/2023 8:07:43 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Totally unconstitutional to create a slush fund that an agency can use as it sees fit.

But Congress has abdicated its responsibility to write laws and spend money to the bureaucracy.


16 posted on 04/09/2023 9:17:14 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Relax.

Close your eyes and think of England.


17 posted on 04/09/2023 1:30:30 PM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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