Number of Low-Income Audits Could at Least Triple as IRS Grows, Data Show

Number of Low-Income Audits Could at Least Triple as IRS Grows, Data Show
The Internal Revenue Service Headquarters Building in Washington on Sept. 19, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
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Experts are looking to the past for clues as to what a beefed-up IRS might look like if the tax collection agency was turbocharged with more money and manpower.

Over the next decade, the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” will provide the IRS with 87,000 new agents and $80 billion in funding, with nearly $46 billion earmarked for enforcement.

Darlene McCormick Sanchez
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Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.
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