Size of IRS Will Be Doubled in Schumer-Manchin Bill.

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The Schumer-Manchin bill doubles the size and power of the IRS. The bill provides no safeguards for taxpayers or any accountability for the often-abusive agency.

The IRS has proven itself to be incompetent, bloated, and corrupt. Doubling its size so that more working Americans can be harassed and have their sensitive information mishandled or even destroyed is an initiative that will harm small businesses and working households.

A big part of doubling the size of the IRS is hiring 87,000 new agents. These agents are not the nice people who answer the phone when you are trying to file. The bill provides 14 times the quantity of money for “enforcement” – which means audits – than it does for “taxpayer services” – such as actually picking up the phone.

Rather, these are the agents that will target small businesses and working Americans. These audits are time consuming and often don’t bear fruit. Audits rarely cost the subject less than $10,000, a nearly insurmountable expense for most middle-class Americans and small business owners, whose audit rate will increase by 50%.

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