{"id":1606406,"date":"2022-08-15T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T13:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606406"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T13:06:03","slug":"its-guaranteed-americans-earning-less-than-400000-will-be-hounded-by-irs-rep-scalise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-guaranteed-americans-earning-less-than-400000-will-be-hounded-by-irs-rep-scalise\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s \u2018Guaranteed\u2019 Americans Earning Less Than $400,000 Will Be Hounded by IRS: Rep. Scalise"},"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%2Fits-guaranteed-americans-earning-less-than-400000-will-be-hounded-by-irs-rep-scalise%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=1606406&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>Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) said that the Democrat spending bill that boosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-irs\">IRS<\/a> funding is \u201cguaranteed\u201d to squeeze more tax revenue from middle- and lower-income Americans despite Biden administration insistence that households making less than $400,000 won\u2019t face higher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-taxes\">taxes<\/a> or audit rates.<\/p>\n<p>Scalise, who is the House Republican whip, made the remarks on the House floor and in an interview on Fox News on Aug. 12, the day the Democrat-controlled House passed the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smoking gun came out this morning,\u201d Scalise said on the House floor, referring to a statement from the non-partisan scorekeeper at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that <a href=\"https:\/\/gop-waysandmeans.house.gov\/cbo-new-irs-audits-will-grab-at-least-20b-from-lower-middle-income-families\/\">reportedly confirmed<\/a> that $20 billion in additional tax revenue would come from middle- and lower-income households owing to the IRS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-enforcement\">enforcement<\/a> funding boost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a confirmation that the IRS agents will be getting about $20 billion in new taxes from people making less than $400,000,\u201d Scalise said, while characterizing the CBO statement as confirmation that the bill \u201cbreaks President [Joe] Biden\u2019s promise\u201d that Americans making less than that amount shouldn\u2019t worry as their taxes won\u2019t go up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s confirmed by the CBO, and there was an amendment to stop it from happening, and every Democrat voted against it,\u201d Scalise continued, referring to amendment 5404 (<a href=\"https:\/\/gop-waysandmeans.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/5404.Crapo11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pdf<\/a>) proposed by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) that would have prevented any of the funds appropriated under the Inflation Reduction Act being used to audit taxpayers making less than $400,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>The $20 billion in additional taxes from American households earning less than $400,000 was arrived at by calculating how much less tax revenue would flow into government coffers if legislators had accepted Crapo\u2019s amendment, according to Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/gop-waysandmeans.house.gov\/cbo-new-irs-audits-will-grab-at-least-20b-from-lower-middle-income-families\/\">who disclosed<\/a> part of the CBO statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCBO has not completed a point estimate of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) said that the Democrat spending bill that boosts IRS funding is \u201cguaranteed\u201d to squeeze more tax revenue from middle- and lower-income Americans despite Biden administration insistence that households making less than $400,000 won\u2019t face higher taxes or audit rates. 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