WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Ways and Means Committee, under a new Republican majority, has established an online form to assist Internal Revenue Service (IRS) personnel who wish to submit information confidentially to the Committee regarding any inappropriate behavior or mishandling of taxpayer ...
A new report from the IRS watchdog finds that the tax collecting agency is already struggling to implement the massive infusion of $80 billion in new funding Democrats provided in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act. The agency is slated to release a spending plan next month, but the problems for the ...
As Republicans drew closer to passing legislation to protect the middle class and small businesses from an IRS supercharged with 87,000 new agents that would audit them, Democrats resorted to repeating long debunked arguments. Here are a few: Claim: Republicans are falsely claiming the IRS will hire 87,000 new agents. Fact: Treasury’s own proposal published ...
For a printable version of this one-pager, please click here. Republicans are blocking the Biden Administration from unleashing 87,000 new IRS agents to go after families and small businesses and their unprecedented increase in IRS audits. The ...
After Democrats released private taxpayer information against Republican objections, they moved to suppress full committee materials from the American public in violation of a full committee action that required the transcript of the closed session to ...
Brady: Democrats Unleash Dangerous New Political Weapon with Public Release of Private Tax Returns Following Democrats’ move to release private taxpayer information, Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement. “With the publicly released transcript of Democrats’ secret executive session, Americans now have confirmation that ...
“Today, as we look back on the last two years, we can see the damage caused by a Congress that spends without guardrails. Since President Biden was sworn in, federal government spending has increased by $10 trillion,” writes Ways and Means Member Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) in
“Democrats have spent years justifying any action to get Mr. Trump, and releasing his tax returns is another wrecking ball to standards and norms,” writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board in a new editorial outlining the weak pretext ...
On Wednesday, Ways and Means Democrats voted to release confidential taxpayer information, jeopardizing the right of every American to be protected from political targeting by Congress. Here’s the truth about how their unprecedented and haphazard actions sets a dangerous precedent that will allow majorities in Congress to target their political enemies. Democrats ignore that President ...
As Democrats attempt to justify unleashing a dangerous new political weapon that overturns decades of privacy protections for average Americans that have existed since the Watergate reforms, Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) warned against their politically-motivated action that sets a terrible precedent. Speaking on the House Floor, Rep. Brady noted that ...