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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 Demands Answers from IRS on $80 Billion Middle Class Audits Plan

February 07, 2023 — Blog

WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Ways and Means Republicans ongoing aggressive oversight of the Biden Administration and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08)

Smith Sets Sights on Aggressive IRS Oversight, Announces Direct Line of Communication for Agency Whistleblowers

January 25, 2023 — Blog

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 ...

Watchdog: IRS Still Reluctant to Admit Who Gets Audited with $80 Billion in New Funding

January 19, 2023 — Blog

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 ...

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 ...