{"id":1594653,"date":"2022-08-08T13:03:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T17:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1594653"},"modified":"2022-08-08T13:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T17:03:45","slug":"gop-issues-warning-as-democrat-inflation-act-includes-hiring-of-87000-new-irs-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-issues-warning-as-democrat-inflation-act-includes-hiring-of-87000-new-irs-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Issues Warning as Democrat \u2018Inflation Act\u2019 Includes Hiring of 87,000 New IRS Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-issues-warning-as-democrat-inflation-act-includes-hiring-of-87000-new-irs-agents%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1594653&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republicans say a Democrat-backed bill worth $740 billion includes funding to hire 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-irs\">IRS<\/a>) agents, which they say will target Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, known as the \u201cInflation Reduction Act,\u201d was approved in a 51\u201350 vote as Vice President Kamala Harris served as a tie-breaker for Democrats. A provision includes the hiring of 87,000 agents, a move that was defended by Democrats, who said that the funding would target people who cheat on their taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMillions of Americans aren\u2019t going to be impacted by that other than getting better service from the IRS having their telephone answer getting the questions they need in order to comply with our tax laws,\u201d Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told Fox News on Sunday. \u201cThe auditing is going to be focused on those of high income, the large corporations, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Democrats have pointed to a May <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/products\/gao-22-104960\">report<\/a> from the\u00a0Government Accountability Office showing that IRS audits have dropped over the past decade, including audits for the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent letter to Congress, IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said that if an additional $80 billion is given to the agency via the legislation, it would not increase audits for households that earn less than $400,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese resources are absolutely not about increasing audit scrutiny on small businesses or middle-income Americans,\u201d Retting wrote in the letter. \u201cAs we have been planning, our investment of these enforcement resources is designed around Treasury\u2019s directive that audit rates will not rise relative to recent years for households making under $400,000.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Warning <\/p>\n<p>But Republicans warned that the IRS will target middle-class Americans with the tens of thousands of extra agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeriously, how out of touch do you have to be to brag about forcing a purely partisan bill through the Senate that raises taxes on the middle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans say a Democrat-backed bill worth $740 billion includes funding to hire 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents, which they say will target Americans. The bill, known as the \u201cInflation Reduction Act,\u201d was approved in a 51\u201350 vote as Vice President Kamala Harris served as a tie-breaker for Democrats. 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