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President Trump’s first budget blueprint calls for a $239 million cut to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) despite Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s previous requests to hire more IRS staff and modernize its technology.
The blueprint, released Thursday morning, would reduce Treasury Department funding by 4.1 percent and move funding toward combating financial crime, terrorism financing and economic threats.
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Conservative lawmakers have long sought IRS funding cuts, reducing the agency’s budget by $1.2 billion from 2010 to 2015. Conservatives have also sought cuts to the IRS after it was accused of targeting conservative groups that had applied for tax-exempt status with undue scrutiny because of their political affiliation.
------------------------------------Since 2010 the IRS the republicans have been slowly dropping the funding for the IRS , I think it time the IRS got more funding, and the pandemic was worst for them in the years of 2020 and 2021. That 80 billion is going over 10 years of time.
The blueprint, released Thursday morning, would reduce Treasury Department funding by 4.1 percent and move funding toward combating financial crime, terrorism financing and economic threats.
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Conservative lawmakers have long sought IRS funding cuts, reducing the agency’s budget by $1.2 billion from 2010 to 2015. Conservatives have also sought cuts to the IRS after it was accused of targeting conservative groups that had applied for tax-exempt status with undue scrutiny because of their political affiliation.
Trump budget cuts IRS funding despite Mnuchin’s call for more staff
President Trump’s first budget blueprint calls for a $239 million cut to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) despite Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s previous requests to hire more IRS staff and …
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Trump Budget Continues Multi-Year Assault on IRS Funding Despite Mnuchin’s Call for More Resources
Trump Budget Continues Multi-Year Assault on IRS Funding Despite Mnuchin’s Call for More Resources | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget has been cut by 18 percent since 2010, after adjusting for inflation, and the agency has lost roughly 13,000 employees — around 14 percent of its...
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