{"id":2217520,"date":"2024-04-10T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-promising-not-to-the-irs-army-democrats-expanded-is-targeting-the-middle-class\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T14:43:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:43:41","slug":"after-promising-not-to-the-irs-army-democrats-expanded-is-targeting-the-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-promising-not-to-the-irs-army-democrats-expanded-is-targeting-the-middle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite pledging not to do so, the IRS, under Democratic leadership, has extended its focus to include the middle class"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/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%2Fafter-promising-not-to-the-irs-army-democrats-expanded-is-targeting-the-middle-class%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=2217520&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>The IRS has increased its focus on the middle class, despite prior \u200cassurances. Democrats allocated an extra $80 billion over a decade starting in 2022 for enhanced \u200bIRS enforcement aimed at high earners. This move includes hiring additional agents, increasing\u2062 audit rates on the wealthy, and targeting \u200chigh-income individuals for tax compliance. The IRS has shifted \u2063its \u2064attention to the middle class, contradicting previous \u200bpromises. Democrats approved an additional $80 \u2064billion over ten years starting in 2022 to enhance IRS enforcement on\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-joe-manchin-meeting-with-republicans-drafting-scaled-down-version-of-biden-infrastructure-bill\/\" title=\"Report: Joe Manchin Meeting With Republicans, Drafting \u2018Scaled Down\u2019 Version Of Biden Infrastructure Bill\">high-income earners<\/a>. This\u2063 initiative involves hiring more agents, boosting\u200d audits on the affluent, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ira-mehlman-democrats-beef-up-tax-enforcement-but-let-immigration-enforcement-languish\/\" title=\"Ira Mehlman: Democrats Beef Up Tax Enforcement, But Let Immigration Enforcement Languish\">ensuring tax compliance<\/a> among high earners.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is deploying most of its expanded army of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bottled-up-rage\/\" title=\"Suppressed fury\">federal tax collectors<\/a> against the middle class, contradicting Democrats\u2019 promises when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/09\/07\/1121644091\/the-irs-is-getting-80-billion-for-what\">hiked <\/a>its budget by $80 billion over the next 10 years in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Joe Biden will seek $80 billion to fund enhanced Internal Revenue Service enforcement of high-earners,\u201d CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/27\/politics\/biden-irs-enforcement\/index.html\">claimed <\/a>in 2021. NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/09\/07\/1121644091\/the-irs-is-getting-80-billion-for-what\">claimed <\/a>in 2022 that the IRS would spend the money, among other things, on \u201chiring new enforcement agents\u201d and \u201cauditing the wealthiest Americans.\u201d Last month, Bloomberg kept the narrative up, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/daily-tax-report\/biden-proposes-12-3-billion-for-irs-revamp-tax-cheat-crackdown\">claiming <\/a>this year\u2019s even higher IRS spending request from the Biden administration was meant to \u201cbuild[] up its enforcement efforts on wealthy individuals and companies that aren\u2019t paying what they owe.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-831771746\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a536c53147bfd148bd35aa0b2f6379be fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a536c53147bfd148bd35aa0b2f6379be\"><\/div>\n<p>The IRS last year claimed the extra $80 billion would help the IRS \u201crestore fairness in tax compliance by shifting more attention onto high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations and promoters abusing the nation\u2019s tax laws. The effort\u2026 will center on adding more attention on wealthy, partnerships and other high earners that have seen sharp drops in audit rates for these taxpayer segments during the past decade.\u00a0\u201d <\/p>\n<p>According to a new audit of the agency, as of just less than a year ago, 63 percent of new IRS audit inquiries were to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-build-back-better-irs-audits-for-working-class-tax-cuts-for-the-rich\/\" title=\"Biden's Build Back Better: IRS Audits for Working Class, Tax Cuts for the Rich\">middle-income earners<\/a> who made less than $200,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly a small overall share reached the very highest earners, while 80% of audits covered filers earning less than $1 million,\u201d the Wall Street Journal editorial board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/irs-tax-collectors-audit-middle-class-tigta-5071d622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> last week. \u201cDon\u2019t forget to save those charitable-giving receipts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congress gave the IRS funding to hire nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/29\/build-back-better-bill-would-fund-86000-additional-irs-agents-to-sic-on-american-taxpayers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">87,000 <\/a>new tax collectors in the \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d (IRA) of 2022. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (Tigta) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tigta.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/reports\/2024-03\/2024ier010fr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported <\/a>in March the new recruits were \u201cnot to be used to increase the share of small businesses or households below the $400,000 threshold\u201d but the tax agency \u201cdid not include specifics on how the IRS was going to ensure it met this commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e45ca35f253de6eedf3d04dbf8f18e58 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-e45ca35f253de6eedf3d04dbf8f18e58\"><\/div>\n<p>When trying to sell lawmakers on IRS plans for expansion in 2022, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy0918#:~:text=to%20historical%20levels.-,This%20means%20that%2C%20contrary%20to%20the%20misinformation%20from%20opponents%20of,focus%20on%20high%2Dend%20noncompliance.\">pledged<\/a>, \u201ccontrary to the misinformation from opponents of this legislation,\u201d that \u201csmall business or households earning $400,000 per year or less will not see an increase in the chances that they are audited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But if audits are going up overall, then <em>everyone\u2019s <\/em>chances of being audited have increased, with the IRS still targeting middle- and lower-income Americans for the majority of audits. \u201cEmpowering the IRS\u201d was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/cea\/written-materials\/2024\/02\/08\/empowering-the-irs-understanding-the-full-potential-of-the-inflation-reduction-acts-historic-investment-in-the-internal-revenue-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">whole point<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/trac.syr.edu\/tracirs\/latest\/679\/\">report <\/a>from Syracuse University published in March 2022 shows the IRS audits the poorest Americans at a rate five times higher than other Americans. And when Republicans proposed an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1172\/vote_117_2_00296.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amendment<\/a> to the IRA in 2022 to \u201cprevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service Funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000,\u201d Democrats rejected it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he IRS never claimed it would decrease its middle-class audits, only that audits on higher-earners would become a majority,\u201d notes the Wall Street Journal editorial board. \u201cA fleet of new agents were supposed to turn their sights on rich tax dodgers. But apparently the job is in scarce demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d733953692c86cc20046817191b86f55 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d733953692c86cc20046817191b86f55\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tigta.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/reports\/2024-03\/2024ier010fr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, job applications to the IRS fell \u201cfar below\u201d recruitment goals. The apparent staffing shortage might frustrate Washington tax collectors while easing anxiety among conservative groups <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/20\/senate-republicans-propose-irs-rule-to-prevent-repeat-of-2013-obama-tax-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">routinely targeted<\/a> by the federal tax agency. <\/p>\n<p>Last spring, Indiana Republican Sen. Mike Braun <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/senate-bill\/1105\/text?s=1&#038;r=52\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reintroduced <\/a>the \u201cDon\u2019t Weaponize the IRS Act\u201d to codify Trump-era rules aimed at preventing the IRS from discriminating against groups that apply for tax-exempt status based on political ideology. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[RELATED:[RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/17\/biden-irs-declares-christian-activism-too-political-for-non-profit-status\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden IRS Declares Christian Activism Too Political For Non-Profit Status<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d2b87f3a164788c76beff5c308eb54db fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-d2b87f3a164788c76beff5c308eb54db\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS is diverting a significant portion of its increased federal tax collector workforce towards the middle class, going against Democrats&#8217; assurances after approving an $80 billion budget boost over the coming decade in 2022. CNN reports that President Joe Biden aims to allocate $80 billion for bolstered IRS enforcement targeting high earners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2217521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/14299031739_4b65a68e66_k-e1712700408238.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/14299031739_4b65a68e66_k-e1712700408238.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217520","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}