Billions in new IRS funding has prompted misleading claims about what it all means for taxpayers. There are not 87,000 new armed agents coming to collect your taxes.
involving money laundering, cybercrime, narcotics and more.
Taxpayers facing routine audits won’t encounter a special agent. Most routine audits are done by mail, depending on the complexity of the audit. In 2018 aboutA Facebook video claims that"the IRS is about to double in size, with 87,000 new armed agents and an additional $80 billion in order to primarily enhance IRS enforcement and operations."
Biden has approved $80 billion for the IRS to enhance enforcement and operations. But the agency is not doubling in size nor is it newly arming its agents. Many of the new hires will be made over a 10-year period, and will come as the agency prepares for about 50,000 retirements over five to six years. For more than a century, the IRS has had a small armed division of agents who are assigned to respond to criminal investigations. The vast majority of IRS employees are not armed, however, and this funding will not change that. Routine audits are usually done by mail.
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