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Funding Agreement Preserves Reasonable Funding Levels; IRS Funding Rescissions Are Harmful

January 8, 2024 | Sharon Parrott

Congressional leaders’ new agreement on a topline funding level for 2024 rightly ensures that overall funding available for non-defense programs will stay at $773 billion, the already tight level set in May’s bipartisan debt ceiling agreement.

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The Need to Rebuild the Depleted IRS

December 16, 2022

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

December 7, 2022

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Bipartisan Senate Action Passes Minimal Test for IRS Funding While Multiple House Republican Bills Fail

July 20, 2023

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Tax Day Highlights IRS Progress and Need to Protect and Replenish Funding

April 10, 2024 | Kayla Williams

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

January 9, 2023 | Chuck Marr

Report

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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Roundup: Analyzing House Republicans’ Harmful Debt-Ceiling-and-Cuts Bill

May 9, 2023

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McCarthy Bill Uses Debt Ceiling to Force Harmful Policies, Deep Cuts

April 24, 2023

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Ahead of Tax Day, Highlighting Progress and Next Steps for a Rebuilding IRS

April 12, 2023

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

December 16, 2022

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

August 12, 2022

Statement

Inflation Reduction Act Takes Important Steps Forward and Should Be Enacted

August 5, 2022

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.

Tax Day Highlights IRS Progress and Need to Protect and Replenish Funding

Tax filers are benefiting this tax season from recent improvements to the IRS’ customer service and technology made possible through the supplementary funding provided in the Inflation...

Funding Agreement Preserves Reasonable Funding Levels; IRS Funding Rescissions Are Harmful

Congressional leaders’ new agreement on a topline funding level for 2024 rightly ensures that overall funding available for non-defense programs will stay at $773 billion, the already tight level...

Bipartisan Senate Action Passes Minimal Test for IRS Funding While Multiple House Republican Bills Fail

The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously advanced a Financial Services funding bill that passes a minimal test of protecting honest taxpayers by maintaining efforts to rebuild and modernize an...

Roundup: Analyzing House Republicans’ Harmful Debt-Ceiling-and-Cuts Bill

On April 25, the House passed Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s debt-ceiling-and-cuts bill that would use the need to raise the debt ceiling as a bargaining chip to force a set of unpopular, harmful...

McCarthy Bill Uses Debt Ceiling to Force Harmful Policies, Deep Cuts

Speaker McCarthy hides the full House Republican fiscal...

Ahead of Tax Day, Highlighting Progress and Next Steps for a Rebuilding IRS

This tax season, millions of taxpayers are benefiting from a better-funded IRS that’s answering more taxpayer questions, processing returns timelier, and issuing refunds to families around...

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

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...

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....

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