Are you suggesting the IRS could start coming up with fraudulent charges for tax crimes and forfeit assets from individuals and companies to... well, hire more

Are you suggesting the IRS could start coming up with fraudulent charges for tax crimes and forfeit assets from individuals and companies to... well, hire more people to create more made-up charges and continue the cycle? And nobody would notice nor do anything about it? Or even happen to ask for the paper trail pointing to the original evidence? And there would be no judicial system that could step in should the whole agency start behaving irresponsibly? Alternatively, the whatever governing body that currently keeps IRS in a budget could just hand off extra money if IRS is recovering more money than it spends. But based on your logic wouldn't that also give the IRS the incentive to fabricate more tax crimes? If they knew their budget would increase the more they recover? The corollary to not funding IRS based on how much they can recover would be to systematically reduce the IRS budget each time they recover a sum of money from owed taxes. Only then the IRS are most certainly not incentivized to go after and to recover taxes left unpaid. That doesn't make sense either.