The IRS plans to hire nearly 20,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next 2 years as it ramps up an $80 billion investment plan to improve tax enforcement and customer service.
The tax agency, in its long-awaited Strategic Operating Plan, said it will obligate about $8.64 billion of the new funding during the 2023 and 2024 fiscal years, and that 7,239 of the new hires during those years will be enforcement staff.
Including those new employees, customer services hiring using the Inflation Reduction Act funding will total 6,489 full-time-equivalent staff over the two-year period, according to the 148-page plan. It also aims to help close the "tax gap" between taxes owed and those paid, estimated by Treasury at some $600 billion a year, by focusing new audits on the wealthiest Americans.The IRS said $47.4 billion — nearly 60% of the $79.4 billion worth of investments listed in the plan — would be allocated toward expanded enforcement of "taxpayers with complex tax filings and high-dollar noncompliance.
Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Danny Werfel takes his seat to testify before a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the status of the IRS's targeting of political groups, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 27, 2013. Senator Steve Daines, a Montana Republican, said the IRS "plans to deploy an army of tens of thousands of IRS agents to increase audits on Montana families and reach into the pocketbooks of Americans."
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