IRS Funding and Tax Compliance

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Reducing the Tax Gap: 5 Key Points on Information Reporting

September 14, 2021 | Chuck Marr and Samantha Jacoby

The information reporting proposal is specifically designed to impose no burdens on taxpayers, to protect privacy, and to shield people with low or moderate incomes from higher audit rates.

The Need to Rebuild the Depleted IRS

July 2, 2021

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Rebuilding IRS Would Reduce Tax Gap, Help Replenish Depleted Revenue Base

April 13, 2021

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Plan to Rebuild IRS Would Advance Racial Equity

September 14, 2021

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Substantial Income of Wealthy Households Escapes Annual Taxation Or Enjoys Special Tax Breaks

November 13, 2019 | Chuck Marr, Samantha Jacoby and Kathleen Bryant

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Depletion of IRS Enforcement Is Undermining the Tax Code

February 11, 2020 | Chye-Ching Huang

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Reducing the Tax Gap: 5 Key Points on Information Reporting

September 14, 2021

Report

Ways and Means Revenue Bill Major Step Forward But Additional Steps Available

September 13, 2021

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Biden Financial Reporting Requirement an Integral Part of Plan to Address Tax Gap

July 12, 2021

Chart Book

The Need to Rebuild the Depleted IRS

July 2, 2021

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Rebuilding IRS Would Reduce Tax Gap, Help Replenish Depleted Revenue Base

April 13, 2021

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Building an Equitable Recovery Requires Investing in Children, Supporting Workers, and Expanding Health Coverage

March 24, 2021

Policy Basics

The IRS performs two core functions of government: enforcing the nation’s tax laws and helping taxpayers navigate a tax system that relies on voluntary compliance.

We work to ensure that the IRS has sufficient resources to perform its fundamental tasks so everyone pays the taxes they owe.

Reducing the Tax Gap: 5 Key Points on Information Reporting

The information reporting proposal is specifically designed to impose no burdens on taxpayers, to protect privacy, and to shield people with low or moderate incomes from higher audit...

Ways and Means Revenue Bill Major Step Forward But Additional Steps Available

The package would raise substantial revenue in three major ways: from high-income and wealthy individuals, from profitable corporations, and from better enforcement of the nation’s tax...

Biden Financial Reporting Requirement an Integral Part of Plan to Address Tax Gap

An integral component of the Biden Administration’s comprehensive plan to rebuild the depleted IRS and reduce the nation’s large tax gap is a set of financial reporting rules that would help...

The Need to Rebuild the Depleted IRS

This chart book provides background on the depletion of the IRS. For more on how to rebuild the IRS, see: Rebuilding IRS Would Reduce Tax Gap, Help Replenish Depleted...

Rebuilding IRS Would Reduce Tax Gap, Help Replenish Depleted Revenue Base

A decade of budget cuts has severely undermined the agency’s ability to perform its fundamental jobs of enforcing the nation’s tax...

Building an Equitable Recovery Requires Investing in Children, Supporting Workers, and Expanding Health Coverage

The recovery legislation that policymakers will consider later this year provides a historic opportunity to build toward an equitable...

This Year’s Tax Day Highlights Need to Rebuild IRS

This Tax Day, delayed until July 15 to help taxpayers deal with the disruptions caused by COVID-19, should be a wake-up call for policymakers to invest in core government functions like the IRS. A...

Next Stimulus Bill Should Include Volunteer Tax Assistance Funding

Policymakers gave the IRS additional funds in the CARES Act of March, acknowledging that the agency is playing a critical role in responding to today’s economic crisis by delivering more than 150...

IRS Stimulus Glitches Show Cost of Earlier Cuts

IRS workers deserve tremendous credit for delivering — in just weeks — 88 million stimulus payments during a pandemic. But the IRS’ challenges in doing so make clear that years of ill-advised...

GAO: 2017 Tax Law Creating New Compliance Challenges for IRS

The already overburdened IRS “may face challenges ensuring compliance” with certain parts of the 2017 tax law, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds, particularly the 20 percent...

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