Speaking of those 87,000. Seems I was wrong and it isn’t a distraction as I first suggested, it’s just that staff increases will not be immediate. Though I don’t for a moment think it’s some spooky shadow army. Rather it seems that after some calculations the return on this particular investment makes it worth while.
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/57444
According to the CBO:
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Spending would increase in each year between 2021 and 2031, though the highest growth would occur in the first few years. By 2031, CBO projects, the proposal would make the IRS’s budget more than 90 percent larger than it is in CBO’s July 2021 baseline projections and would more than double the IRS’s staffing. Of the $80 billion, CBO estimates, about $60 billion would be for enforcement and related operations support.
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https://home.treasury.gov/system/fil...nce-Agenda.pdf
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Because the expansion in the IRS’s budget is phased in over a 10-year horizon, each year the IRS’s workforce should grow by no more than a manageable 15%. By the end of the decade, however, the IRS’s budget would be roughly 40% above 2011 levels in real terms as a result of this proposal.
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On the bright side for all us po’ folk. They say their sights will be set primarily on those making $400,000 or more.
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