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| Increasing The IRS Annual Budget By Seven Times Doesn't Add Up |
| 2022-08-07 |
| [American Thinker] The talk in the media is about a "beefed-up" IRS. The IRS budget for FY 2022 totals nearly $14 billion ($11.9 billion in appropriated funds) with a full-time equivalent (FTE) staff ceiling of 79,808 (75,533 from appropriated funding.) Now, the Democrat-controlled Congress, at the behest of the Biden Administration, wants to take that up an additional almost $80 billion, with 1% going to Department of the Treasury offices other than the IRS. That adds up to nearly $93 billion, seven times this year’s budget. SEVEN TIMES. In addition, Democrats want to add in another 86,852 FTEs, more than doubling the staffing to 166,660. These positions are described as "new, specialized enforcement staff." See page 17 of the American Families Plan Tax Compliance Agenda for more. The increased funding and staffing are designed to restore IRS enforcement capability through a sustained rebuilding of the IRS. According to IRS data, staffing was at a peak in 1995 at 114,064 FTEs. That was before automation, common use internet, and e-filing. Data processing took more than a quarter of all staff. Within two years, the data processing staff was cut in half—no surprise there—and disappeared altogether as a category a couple of years later. As banking became more automated, collections staff numbers other than revenue officers were reduced by two-thirds. With the advent of e-filing, the filing and account management staff declined. Staffing has been more or less at today’s level for a decade, which is eminently reasonable as more sophisticated automation is available to both the IRS and the taxpayer. Under these circumstances, the IRS will not be rebuilding its old structure nor restoring anything that may have been lost. So, what’s going on? Something doesn’t add up. We know through observing Biden Administration and Congressional activities over the past half year that it takes about $80 billion to cover our costs for a proxy war between the US/NATO and another nuclear power. While practice doesn’t always make perfect, it certainly sets a pattern. Now, the same actors plan to spend $80 billion going after unpaid income taxes. However, it looks more like Biden and his pet Congresscritters are about to fund a war on We the People. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #15 Biden is weaponizing the IRS. Some of us remember the IRS vs the Tea Party. Nobody ever liked the IRS, but once upon a time, they were regarded as fair. Same with the FBI. I am trying without success to think of any American institution that has not been compromised. Government, law enforcement, science, the military, universities, journals... even the weather. OK, Waffle House still works! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2022-08-07 19:39 |
| #14 Biden is weaponizing the IRS. |
| Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 2022-08-07 17:58 |
| #13 #8 exactly, and why Obama was procuring all that weaponry for obscure Gov. entities (that would not normaly be involved with weapons), during bis time... |
| Posted by: 746 2022-08-07 15:06 |
| #12 One of the top IRS executives, Lois Lerner. Should be all we really need to know about this agency. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-08-07 12:19 |
| #11 The IRS is an agency not described in the Constitution. It could be eliminated by an act of congress, just as it was established. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-07 10:23 |
| #10 My opinion of the IRS has always been colored by the fact that IRS whistleblowers had to be treated like mob informants when testifying before Congress due to death threats. That alone should tell you everything you need to know about the IRS should be disbanded and every member of the staff sent to Gitmo, never to return. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2022-08-07 10:06 |
| #9 Bujold had a reference in one of her books to "armed accountants" w/r/t extreme "tax collection". Doesn't seem quite so funny now. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-08-07 09:39 |
| #8 Now you know why the IRS needs 5M rounds of ammo. |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-08-07 09:34 |
| #7 I love the idea of hitting a Karen with an old style ledger book... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-07 09:26 |
| #6 Remember when Federal Income Law (16th) was passed it actually taxed less than 1 percent of the US population, and they paid income taxes at only 1 percent of net income. TAXES in the US now are the equivalent of Indentured servitude. Maybe it is time for the SCOTUS to review the 16th as pass and intended in 1913 vs. as applied now in 2022. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-08-07 09:24 |
| #5 The IRS will be recruiting HOA Karen’s by advertising the ability to screw over your neighbors with the full force of the US GIVERnment. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2022-08-07 09:20 |
| #4 I predict the IRS will increase surveillance and prosecution of conservatives and Christian churches. The excess of funding will be used to prosecute and bankrupt all political opponents. |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2022-08-07 09:14 |
| #3 They want to add 85,000 "new, specialized enforcement staff"? The ones they have now aren't that good, and these ones will be even worse. And what the hell are they going to be auditing? I can't imagine this will be popular with any segment of the population besides CPA's who'll have to defend clients from all these audits. |
| Posted by: Raj 2022-08-07 08:49 |
| #2 Money is just a marker for wealth. Actual wealth will still reside with those who make it, in the environment in which it is made. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-08-07 05:18 |
| #1 Could be a prelude to the financial world going full digital. Or confiscation of gold or cash…. Conspiracy theories will emerge as no one trusts the IRS. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2022-08-07 04:43 |