The 87,000 figure includes hires across the agency, including IT and taxpayer services, not just enforcement staff as the claim suggests. And many of those hires would go toward holding staff numbers steady in the face of a history of budget cuts and a wave of projected retirements.
Projections of over 700,000 new audits of modest income filers are based on flawed assumptions, and run counter to the strategy the IRS plans to follow.
The Treasury Department says people and small businesses making under $400,000 per year will see no change, while audits of corporations and high net-worth individuals will rise.
The Democrats’ tax and spending bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act, has about $80 billion over 10 years for the IRS to boost collections by $204 billion. Among other purposes, the agency says it will use the money to target high-income earners and corporations.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, along with many other Republicans, say otherwise.
"Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you — with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k," McCarthy tweeted Aug. 9.
Do you make $75,000 or less?
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) August 9, 2022
Democrats' new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you—with 710,000 new audits for Americans who earn less than $75k.
McCarthy’s office didn’t get back to us to explain where he got his numbers, but they are misleading.
This 87,000 figure comes from a May...
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