Billions in new IRS funding has prompted misleading claims about what it all means for taxpayers. There are not 87,000 new armed agents coming to collect your taxes.
By Sara Swann • August 23, 2022
The report also said that not all new hires would work as auditors or in enforcement, and that the money will also be used to upgrade technology and taxpayer services. The new hiring will take place over a 10-year period, and the number from the 2021 plan is not final, a Treasury Department official told us when we looked into a claim from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy about"an army of 87,000 IRS agents — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k." We rated McCarthy's claimThe agency will grow under the plan, but not as much as is being alleged.
FBI and IRS agents in Puerto Rico remove documents from the main office of the San Juan municipality due to suspected irregularities in handling of U.S. funds for HIV-AIDS programs in 2006.
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