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Success of the IRS Rebuilding and Tax Gap Reduction Effort Depends on Sufficient Funding Through Annual Appropriations

December 7, 2022 | Chuck Marr, Samantha Jacoby and Jabari Cook

Earlier this year policymakers took step one in a two-step funding process designed to rebuild the IRS with the goals of improving customer service and reducing the tax gap, by enacting $80 billion...

The Need to Rebuild the Depleted IRS

December 16, 2022

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Added IRS Funding Would Help Ensure High-Income Households, Businesses Pay Their Taxes

August 12, 2022

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House GOP’s First Bill: A Misleading Gambit to Protect Interests of Wealthy Tax Cheats

January 9, 2023

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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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Plan to Rebuild IRS Would Advance Racial Equity

September 14, 2021 | Samantha Jacoby

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

December 16, 2022

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Inflation Reduction Act Takes Important Steps Forward and Should Be Enacted

August 5, 2022

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Congress Needs to Take Two Steps to Fund the IRS for the Short and Long Term

February 1, 2022

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5 Reasons Why Congress Should Quickly Pass Build Back Better

December 16, 2021

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Revenue From BBB’s IRS Enforcement Funding Would Support Investments

November 17, 2021

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Build Back Better Requires Highest-Income People and Corporations to Pay Fairer Amount of Tax, Reduces Tax Gap

November 2, 2021

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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.

House GOP’s First Bill: A Misleading Gambit to Protect Interests of Wealthy Tax Cheats

The debate should focus on one accurate and alarming number: the IRS has 2,284 fewer skilled auditors to handle the sophisticated returns of wealthy taxpayers than it did in...

Success of the IRS Rebuilding and Tax Gap Reduction Effort Depends on Sufficient Funding Through Annual Appropriations

Added IRS Funding Would Help Ensure High-Income Households, Businesses Pay Their Taxes

The added resources would enable the IRS to concentrate its enforcement efforts on a major source of the tax gap: the highest-income 1 percent of...

Inflation Reduction Act Takes Important Steps Forward and Should Be Enacted

The Inflation Reduction Act moves toward a fairer tax system, makes health coverage and prescription drugs more affordable, and addresses the global challenge of climate change....

Congress Needs to Take Two Steps to Fund the IRS for the Short and Long Term

Congress should put the IRS on a path to a much needed, and long overdue, rebuild after years of crippling funding...

5 Reasons Why Congress Should Quickly Pass Build Back Better

The package — which is fiscally sustainable, based on solid research, and builds on successful existing federal and state efforts — would make us a fairer, more equitable...

Revenue From BBB’s IRS Enforcement Funding Would Support Investments

The Build Back Better (BBB) legislation before the House would raise revenue in part by improving IRS enforcement of the nation’s tax laws to close the roughly $600 billion annual gap between taxes...

Build Back Better Requires Highest-Income People and Corporations to Pay Fairer Amount of Tax, Reduces Tax Gap

The legislation would raise revenue in three main ways: requiring people with high incomes to pay a fairer amount of tax, reducing unwarranted tax advantages for profitable corporations, and...

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...

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