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IRS pledges better customer service, no new agents with guns
The IRS has outlined plans to improve operations with new technology and more customer service representatives.
WASHINGTON —
The Internal Revenue Service released details Thursday on how it plans to use an infusion of $80 billion for improved operations, pledging to invest in new technology, hire more customer service representatives and expand its ability to audit high-wealth taxpayers.
Although some Republicans have suggested without evidence that the money from the Democrats’ landmark climate change and healthcare bill would help create a mob of armed auditors to harass middle-class taxpayers, new IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said it will not include spending for new agents with guns.
The agency’s newly released strategic operating plan lays out the specifics of how the IRS will allocate the $80 billion, over eight years, that was approved in that legislation.
Some improvements have been long expected, such as bringing more paper-based systems online and answering taxpayers’ phone calls promptly. Others are more ambitious: continuing to explore ways to create a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system, for example.
No hiring boost is foreseen for the criminal investigation unit, which represents 3% of the agency’s workforce and employed roughly 2,077 special agents as of the 2022 budget year, according to the IRS’ annual report. Those are the agents who may be armed.
There are “no plans to increase” that division, Werfel said during a call with reporters. “That will stay at its current rate.”
Since President Biden signed the measure, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, in August, some Republicans have claimed that the IRS would use the new money to hire an army of 87,000 tax agents with weapons.
If you use the internet archive, you will find that their job listing for that specific unit has been up for years, with the only change being made in early 2022, so ask yourself what's driving the panic today?
Look at the sites misreporting on this:
IRS puts out fresh job ad for hundreds of armed agents
The Internal Revenue Service is looking for more than 350 employees willing to — if necessary — terminate their fellow Americans.
IRS Hiring Hundreds of Armed Agents
The Internal Revenue Service posted a hiring notice for hundreds of new armed agents amid Republicans' concerns about the tens of thousands of staffers the agency is hiring with funding from the Biden administration.
IRS plans to hire gun-carrying special agents in all 50 states
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Increasingly armed IRS and other agencies should worry us all
The IRS and other federal agencies continue to militarize at a furious and dangerous pace. Reasonable elected officials would act to demilitarize those agencies forthwith.
Biden's IRS Chief: IRS Hiring 1,200 More Gun-Carrying Agents - Americans for Tax Reform
IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel confirmed today that the IRS plans to hire roughly 1,200 additional armed IRS agents as a result of the $80 billion in increased IRS funding passed in Democrats’ misnamed Inflation Reduction Act. While testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee on...
Why is a hip-hop gossip blog following their misleading reporting?



