{"id":1619549,"date":"2022-08-22T23:27:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T03:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1619549"},"modified":"2022-08-22T23:27:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T03:27:29","slug":"fact-check-did-congress-vote-to-exempt-itself-from-upcoming-irs-audits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-congress-vote-to-exempt-itself-from-upcoming-irs-audits\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Congress Vote To Exempt Itself From Upcoming IRS Audits?"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ffact-check-did-congress-vote-to-exempt-itself-from-upcoming-irs-audits%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=1619549&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-19T164738Z_1049090067_RC2RZV995ERQ_RTRMADP_3_USA-TAX-IRS-MIDDLECLASS-scaled-e1660934347284.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100071565240006\/posts\/187842466944594\"><span>shared on Facebook<\/span><\/a><span> claims members of Congress voted to exempt themselves from any upcoming Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Verdict: False<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence to suggest that any legislation containing such language has been passed or enacted. The claim stems from a satirical Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Inflation Reduction Act which President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/08\/16\/politics\/biden-inflation-reduction-act-signing\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed into law<\/a> last week provides $80 billion in funding for the IRS, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-80-billion-more-for-the-irs-means-for-your-taxes-11660901409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>. The money will be used partly for tax enforcement, specifically for high-earning taxpayers, the outlet reports. Some members of Congress have suggested the money will be used to hire tens of thousands of new agents, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/treasury-department-rejects-gop-claims-irs-agents\/story?id=88495613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A post shared on Facebook claims members of Congress recently voted to exempt themselves from all future IRS audits. \u201cBREAKING In order to safeguard democracy, Congress has voted to exempt itself and its members from upcoming IRS audits,\u201d reads the post. It does not provide details as to when the alleged vote took place or who voted in favor of it.<\/p>\n<p><span>The post\u2019s claim is baseless. There are no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Congress+has+voted+to+exempt+itself+and+its+members+from+upcoming+IRS+audits.&amp;sxsrf=ALiCzsailS2kj2fWo1r6Z4FqjzvIFrYV7Q:1660919897258&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=nws&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiMy-fjkNP5AhXxMlkFHZkLDQ0Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&amp;biw=1536&amp;bih=722&amp;dpr=1.25\">credible news reports<\/a> to suggest that Congress has passed a bill with such language. No bill seeking to exempt members of Congress from IRS audits could be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%2C%22congress%22%3A117%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">congress.gov<\/a>. There is likewise no mention of any new exemption on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/site-index-search?search=Congress+has+voted+to+exempt+itself+IRS+audits&amp;field_pup_historical_1=1&amp;field_pup_historical=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IRS<\/a> website or in any of the posts from the statutory body\u2019s verified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/irsnews\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=audit%20exemption%20(from%3AIRSnews)&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile\/100064911930482\/search\/?q=audit%20exemption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accounts<\/a>.<\/span><span> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/08\/17\/fact-check-irs-hired-950-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/08\/17\/fact-check-irs-hired-950-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>RELATED: Did The IRS Hire 950 New Agents Overnight?)<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The viral claim appears to stem from the satirical Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatmattersNews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@ThatmattersNews<\/a>\u00a0which shared the same message in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatmattersNews\/status\/1559908274065051658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1560261259122970624%7Ctwgr%5E88ade1db92b66c2d88efbf2a457e8f7ba3786134%7Ctwcon%5Es3_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2Ffactcheck-congress-audits-idUSL1N2ZV0YU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aug. 17 tweet<\/a> that now has over 10,000 retweets. <span> The account\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatmattersNews\/status\/1559941238538764288\"><span>pinned tweet<\/span><\/a><span> identifies itself as satirical, reading \u201cREPORT A new study shows that a shocking number of American adults have trouble spelling the word \u2018satire,\u2019 let alone recognizing it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time misinformation regarding the IRS has spread online. Check Your Fact recently <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/08\/15\/fact-check-irs-sniper-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a claim that the IRS is opening a \u201csniper school\u201d to train newly-hired agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims members of Congress voted to exempt themselves from any upcoming Internal Revenue Service (IRS) audits.\u00a0Verdict: False There is no evidence to suggest that any<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":613,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}