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Pete Hall from WI's avatar

It amazes me that any elected official could have the temerity to publicly express opposition to enforcement of tax law. Of course that has the effect of forcing IRS auditors to concentrate on the cheap and easy cases of average individuals, and ignore the higher priced but also much more productive cases of large corporations and wealthy individuals. It is imperative that this sham must be stopped. The IRS must receive full funding to allow it to do its job.

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Cathy Mc. (MO)'s avatar

I have a feeling the Biden administration will find a way. They keep doing just that.

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Kathy Clark's avatar

I wonder if it can be put into the soft infrastructure reconciliation bill.

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Joan Friedman (MA, from NY)'s avatar

My thought too. The IRS has so few people, they can't even open their mail until months after it arrives, and good luck trying to reach them on the phone.

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Fred WI's avatar

Fish where the fish are plentiful, even though the older big tuna might feed more ... if caught and beached. Cheaper and easier to pull in. Suspect IRS agents are rewarded for number of tax cheats at most offices.

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Fred WI's avatar

Hope the focus, if increase in funding for IRS gets in the reconciliation version of infrastructure, is on setting examples for them let them catch me" crowd and getting evidence to revise loopholes.

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