Responding to an increasing number of threats borne of conspiracy theories that agents were going to aggressively target middle income taxpayers, the...
WASHINGTON — Responding to an increasing number of threats borne of conspiracy theories that agents were going to aggressively target middle-income taxpayers, the Internal Revenue Service announced Tuesday that it was conducting a comprehensive review of safety at its facilities.
Don’t miss: Fact check: No, the IRS is not hiring an 87,000-strong military force with funds from the Inflation Reduction Act Rettig, whose term at the IRS ends in November, is tasked with developing a plan on how to spend the new infusion of funds included in the Inflation Reduction Act. “The IRS is making it very clear that you not only need to be ready to audit and investigate your fellow hardworking Americans, your neighbors and friends, you need to be ready and, to use the IRS’s words, willing, to kill them,” he said in the letter.
“IRS employees are certainly very hard working and honest, they do the business of funding the government. They’re saying they don’t deserve to be treated as the enemy of the government,” he said.
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