To wit: Republicans are trying to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to shirk their tax obligations, while making it harder for honest, working-class taxpayers to file their returns for free.
And that’s not the only way the GOP hopes to reduce their tax payments. It would also defund the tax police, making it easier for rich people to shortchange Uncle Sam.since the GOP’s war on the agency began back in 2010 — even as IRS responsibilities have grown more complex and expensive. In that time, the IRS has been enlisted to implement the
House Republicans argue the agency would still have plenty of cash to spare because Democrats’ 2022 Inflation Reduction Act gave the IRS an additional $80 billion, to be spent over a decade. But there are two problems with this argument. Second, that $80 billion — now down to $60 billion — was intended for longer-term investments separate from the agency’s annual duties., particularly to increase compliance among wealthy individuals and corporations with complex returns and armies of accountants. These taxpayers can shield income in nesting dolls ofin this bill, to force the agency to siphon money away from those longer-term investments — costs the government a lot of money.
As always, I implore voters: Look at what politicians would actually do on the issues you care about before awarding them your votes.