The IRS said Friday that it has recovered $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-income Americans who had either failed to file their returns or who hadn’t fully paid what they owed.
The announcement, made jointly with the U.S. Treasury Department, is aimed at highlighting the agency’s ramped-up enforcement efforts against tax cheats, which have been funded under the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
That IRS funding has proved controversial, with some Republican lawmakers falsely claiming the money would be used to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to “to audit Walmart shoppers.”
For all those that want to complain:
Go ahead and do something about it. Otherwise, swallow your catharsis for a moment and recognize that small and consistent steps yield the changes we need, and that there will be setbacks.
The trick then becomes dedication. Something, I should point out, we in the U.S. are really bad at.
Now put those dollars to work for the people instead of throwing it directly into the military sector.
I hope more goes towards going after rich tax dodgers. The more you drain from them, the less resources they have to fuck up our government.
Agreed. Just keep reinvesting the money back in
Will they be charged and face jail time like Hunter Biden?
That’s like less than 1% of their income. We pay 10% wtf!
Yeeeessss keep going.
Waiting to see how many billions they got from poor Americans.