Increasing The IRS Annual Budget By Seven Times Doesn’t Add Up

[mystery-ak]

August 6, 2022
Increasing The IRS Annual Budget By Seven Times Doesn’t Add Up
By Anony Mee

The talk in the media is about a “beefed-up” IRS. The IRS budget for FY 2022 totals nearly $14 billion ($11.9 billion in appropriated funds) with a full-time equivalent (FTE) staff ceiling of 79,808 (75,533 from appropriated funding.)

Now, the Democrat-controlled Congress, at the behest of the Biden Administration, wants to take that up an additional almost $80 billion, with 1% going to Department of the Treasury offices other than the IRS. That adds up to nearly $93 billion, seven times this year’s budget. SEVEN TIMES.

In addition, Democrats want to add in another 86,852 FTEs, more than doubling the staffing to 166,660. These positions are described as “new, specialized enforcement staff.” See page 17 of the American Families Plan Tax Compliance Agenda for more. The increased funding and staffing are designed to restore IRS enforcement capability through a sustained rebuilding of the IRS.

According to IRS data, staffing was at a peak in 1995 at 114,064 FTEs. That was before automation, common use internet, and e-filing. Data processing took more than a quarter of all staff.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/08/increasing_the_irs_annual_budget_by_seven_times_doesnt_add_up.html

[Kamaji]

That's $80 billion over 10 years, or about $8 billion a year.  So the increase is about 57%, not 700%.

[Cyber Liberty]

This, from the US Declaration of Independence:

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

This sentence includes the IRS, especially the part about eating out their substance.