IRS, Still Searching for Leaker of Billionaires’ Tax Returns, Set to Hire 87,000 More Staff

As Washington Democrats are about to hire 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees, those who allegedly leaked the returns of multiple billionaires a year ago are still roaming free the halls of the tax agency. The $80 billion in additional IRS funding for “enforcement” passed the House on Aug. 12 and is on the fast track to be signed into law by President Joe Biden.

Since June 2021, the private and legally-protected information from the tax returns for Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Peter Thiel, and others has been published continually by the liberal group ProPublica. Biden administration officials have testified to Congress that they are investigating the leaks, but it still hasn’t been solved.

“The billionaires’ leak to ProPublica was a test run, and they learned that there are no punishments for it. Now the IRS will have more money to do this,” Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a taxpayer advocacy group, told The Epoch Times. “Pretty soon, it will be de facto that the tax returns of anyone the IRS or the Democrat president does not like can—and will—be leaked when the Democrats wish.”

The IRS Billionaire Leak

The first leak published on the billionaires’ tax rates was timed last year to support Biden’s proposed $1.8 trillion spending bill that hiked taxes for the wealthy. He also called on Congress to “increase investment in the IRS, while ensuring that the additional resources go toward enforcement against those with the highest income.” This morphed into the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” which passed the House Friday on a straight, party-line vote,  220–207.

The editors of ProPublica openly advocate for more funding for the IRS to increase audits. They said that “Republicans don’t want to give money to the IRS because they don’t want the IRS to do