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

August 12, 2022 | Samantha Jacoby

The Senate-passed Inflation Reduction Act includes funding to help the IRS shrink the roughly $600 billion annual gap between taxes legally owed and taxes paid — a gap that disproportionately...

The Need to Rebuild the Depleted IRS

July 2, 2021

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Reducing the Tax Gap: 5 Key Points on Information Reporting

September 14, 2021

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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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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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Inflation Reduction Act Takes Important Steps Forward and Should Be Enacted

August 5, 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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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

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.

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...

Depletion of IRS Enforcement Is Undermining the Tax Code

Testimony of Chye-Ching Huang, Senior Director for Economic Policy, CBPP, before the House Ways and Means...

Policymakers Should Ensure Pass-Throughs Pay More of Taxes They Owe

High-income taxpayers drive much of the “tax gap” — the gap between what taxpayers owe and what they voluntarily pay on time — finds a new paper from Professor Natasha Sarin and former...

Taxing High Incomes, Large Fortunes More Effectively

Policymakers who seek to raise more revenue from the nation’s wealthiest individuals could, for instance, strengthen the estate tax, raise the top personal income tax rate, end preferential...

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

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