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Your claims seem to be directly contradicted by the data here: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/irs-budget-and-workforce https://www.irs.gov/statistics/irs-budget
by sxyuan 2y ago
Your claims seem to be directly contradicted by the data here: https://www.irs.gov/statistics/irs-budget-and-workforce https://www.irs.gov/statistics/irs-budget-and-workforce
According to this, FTEs are down, and operating costs are only up ~30% compared to 2010. Average cost of collection is down.
And consider the decline in audit rate for millionaires from 2010-2019 described here: https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-need-to-rebuild-the-depleted-irs https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-need-to-rebuil...
I guess the onus is now on you to provide support for your claims.
- Izkata 2y agoThe IRS was in the middle of a hiring spree: https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2023/04/irs-hire-30000-employees-over-next-two-years/384897/ https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2023/04/irs-hire-30000-emp... Those 15k they fired may just be forcing them back to how they were a year ago.