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Supercharged IRS

The new Manchin-Biden Build Back Better bill allots $80 billion in new funding for the IRS – more than six times the agency’s current annual budget.

Included in the $80 billion is funding to send 87,000 new IRS agents after you and your family-owned business on the belief that everyone is a tax cheat. The IRS has already been targeting lower and middle income earners, yet Democrats want to hire new IRS agents to audit individuals and small businesses. They’ve also promised to revive their invasive bank surveillance scheme.

Smith: Biden Administration Must Come Clean About Its Tax Hike Plan

March 09, 2023 — Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – American taxpayers struggling in the Biden economy deserve answers about how President Biden’s $4.7 trillion tax hike, proposed in his fiscal year (FY) 2024 budget, will impact them, wrote Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) in a letter to ...

Smith, Schweikert Call Out Biden Administration for Cooking the Books on IRS E-File Study

March 04, 2023 — Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – A think tank with ties to the liberal wing of the Democrat party is drawing scrutiny from Ways and Means Republicans after it was selected by the Biden Administration to receive $15 million in taxpayer funds to “review” an e-file program designed to make the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) both tax collector and tax preparer – a program for which the ...

Fact Check: Hell-bent on Supercharging IRS Against Middle Class, Democrats Once Again Mislead Public

January 09, 2023 — 'Inflation Reduction Act'

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 ...

The Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act

January 09, 2023 — Blog

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 ...