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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the IRS Was Gutted
December 11, 2018 at 8:52 am EST By Taegan Goddard
ProPublica: Had the billions in budget reductions occurred all at once, with tens of thousands of auditors, collectors and customer service representatives streaming out of government buildings in a single day, the collapse of the IRS might have gotten more attention. But there have been no mass layoffs or dramatic announcements. Instead, its taken eight years to bring the agency that funds the government this low. Over time, the IRS has slowly transformed, one employee departure at a time.
The result is a bureaucracy on life support and tens of billions in lost government revenue. ProPublica estimates a toll of at least $18 billion every year, but the true cost could easily run tens of billions of dollars higher.
The cuts are depleting the staff members who help ensure that taxpayers pay what they owe. As of last year, the IRS had 9,510 auditors. Thats down a third from 2010. The last time the IRS had fewer than 10,000 revenue agents was 1953, when the economy was a seventh of its current size. And the IRS is still shrinking. Almost a third of its remaining employees will be eligible to retire in the next year, and with morale plummeting, many of them will.
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How the IRS Was Gutted (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2018
OP
Cary
(11,746 posts)1. "Starve the beast"
In this case so that the lawless fuckers can be "free" to evade taxes.
"'Conservative' values" = lying and cheating.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)3. Taxes are only for the wage slaves
Silly
genxlib
(5,527 posts)2. Look at the bright side
Trump should be able to release his tax return anytime now.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)4. How else are the drumph types able to avoid taxes? Lawyers and weak IRS Thanks to the gop
TSheehan
(277 posts)5. Important thread.