Protecting families and small businesses

Just two weeks from the start of tax filing season, an efficient and functioning Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has never been more important.

The overwhelming majority of Americans pay their taxes; however, 90 percent of the $80 billion in new IRS funding in the Inflation Act would pave the way for more audits on working class families.

Instead of addressing problems like the IRS’s massive return processing backlog, customer service failures, and alarming leaks of private taxpayer data, Democrats in Congress last year directed $80 billion to IRS, with 90% of that funding focused on vastly expanding the IRS’ audit capacity, and not just for the wealthy.