Washington, D.C. — Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) released the following statement after the House passed a bill to eliminate funding for 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents. “Republicans are already working to fight back against the Biden administration and reverse the radical policies implemented during Nancy Pelosi’s reign,” said Moore. “The American people need the government to work for them, not spend billions to scrutinize every private financial interaction they make. Passing this bill to defund the weaponization of the IRS is the first of many promises House Republicans will keep to the American people.” Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act: A provision in the Democrats’ hyper-partisan “Inflation Reduction Act” gave the IRS $72 billion to hire an additional 87,000 agents, making the IRS larger than the Pentagon, State Department, FBI, and Border Control combined. Biden administration policy has made clear that these agents will set their primary focus on everyday Americans and their family-owned small businesses. There is little doubt that Democrats want a supercharged IRS to target Americans based on political or religious beliefs – as we saw the IRS unfairly target conservatives under the Obama administration in 2013. - Gives money back to the American people by rescinding funding for the 87,000 new agents while leaving in place funding for customer service and IT modernization.
- The Biden Treasury’s own document calls for 87,000 agents on page 16 in the "American Family Plan Tax Compliance Agenda”, which is their last publicly issued, official document sharing their plan on what they would do with increased funding to increase compliance.
- CBO estimated last September that greater enforcement would result in $204 billion in increased revenue, because Democrats wanted to use increased enforcement as a pay-for.
- CBO also found that audits of lower- and middle-income earners would be expected to raise at least $20 billion in revenue -- making clear that yes, without guardrails, the IRS would be targeting these earners.
- The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirmed that from 78 percent to 90 percent of the money raised from under-reported income would likely come from those making less than $200,000 a year. Only 4 percent to 9 percent would come from those making more than $500,000.
- This legislation rescinds the $72 billion in funding for the army of IRS agents, ensuring that IRS agents aren’t looking over the shoulders of families and struggling small businesses with the threat of an impending audit.
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