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idontwantthis 8 hours ago

Biden and democrats increased funding in order to have the resources to go after rich offenders and they were doing it successfully and earning more than it cost, but Trumpublicans immediately rescinded it. It’s all public record go look for it.

gamblor956 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not sure why you're being downvoted for this comment as it's true.

Democrats increased IRS funding so it could go after more tax evaders. Conservative estimates are that eliminating tax evasion (evasion, not avoidance) by the ultra-wealthy could allow the U.S. to reduce rate brackets by 2-3% across the board while maintaining revenue.

mothballed 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yet they refused to codify the "promise" it wouldn't be used for under 400k income families. Look at what they do, not what they say. In public they make 'promises' but in statute it turns into ether, meanwhile real audit data pointing to otherwise.

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>I'm very confused about where you're going with this. Are you upset that too many rich people are getting audited, or that tax cheats under 400k income might also get audited?

... this was a direct response to parent stating increased funding was added specifically for going after rich people. Yes I would be upset if I was told they were adding new funding specifically to go after rich tax cheats but then turns out to be something like "welp actually we refuse to codify that or make anything binding that it will be used for those purposes, but for the cameras we will pinky swear it will be used for that and please don't look at the historical data for inferences."

jasonlotito 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Yet they refused to codify the "promise" it wouldn't be used for under 400k income families.

This is a lie. They didn't refuse. They didn't have it codified because they were trying to figure out how to define that. For example, one of the challenges IRS was having was someone reporting $390,000 but they actually earned $450,000. How do you deteremine that without an audit? Do you need a waiver? How does that get resolved without breaking the promise.

> Look at what they do, not what they say.

They were actively working on how to respect the promise in a reasonable way.

alistairSH 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Yep. Here are some details, for anybody interested... https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2024/09/irs-behind-biden-p...

idiotsecant 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm very confused about where you're going with this. Are you upset that too many rich people are getting audited, or that tax cheats under 400k income might also get audited?

alistairSH 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Biden's desired policy was none of the additional funding would be used to increase audit rates for <$400k returns.

The IRS didn't follow the intended policy, getting bogged down in the details of how they would define that threshold (primarily, would somebody who understated their income to get below the threshold count as "under 400k and audited").

Not really sure why the OP is so upset - either way, the payback on additional funding to the IRS is almost universally stated as revenue-positive.

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