Republicans wrongly say the Inflation Reduction Act will send 87,000 IRS agents knocking on the doors of working class and low-income families. The number is misleading. Plus, the IRS will be targeting high-income earners.
. Among other purposes, the agency says it will use the money to target high-income earners and corporations."Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k," McCarthy tweetedDemocrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you—with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.
But even in the 2021 plan, not all of the hires would be auditors, or work in enforcement. The report said the money would go toward many things, including"hiring new specialized enforcement staff, modernizing antiquated information technology, and investing in meaningful taxpayer service." Although the agency’s staff would increase, it’s key to note that over half of the IRS workforce is close to retirement. The plan was created with that exodus in mind and aims to hire thousands of people to simply maintain current levels. Today, the IRS has about"The IRS will lose about 50,000 people over the next five or six years," said Natasha Sarin, Treasury’s counselor for tax policy and implementation."A lot of this hiring is about replacing those people.
Sarin said another factor makes the 87,000 figure less than it appears to be. The agency’s projection of new hires was based on the idea that if things stayed as they were, another decade of business as usual would result in staff cuts. Over the past decade, the IRS has seen its funding. Between 2010 and 2018, the number of enforcement personnel fell by nearly a third. If that trend continued, the IRS would not only be replacing people lost to retirement, but to expected budget cuts.
So, the 87,000 wasn’t exclusively for people on the enforcement side, and it wasn’t all going to boost the overall size of the IRS workforce.
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