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June 08, 2021 at 02:59 PM
What You Need to Know
- The Biden budget proposes a 10% increase for the IRS in fiscal 2022.
- The agency wants to hire specialized agents to focus on HNW individuals, global high wealth, large pass-throughs and non-filer virtual currency.
- Sen. Ron Wyden is most concerned about very wealthy partnerships.
IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig told members of the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday that the agency plans to use its fiscal 2022 budget to hire specialized agents who will crack down on wealthy tax cheats.
President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2022 discretionary budget proposal for the IRS provides $13.2 billion, an increase of $1.2 billion, or 10.4%, above the 2021 enacted level, with $340 million devoted to enforcement.
In his testimony Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee, Rettig said that the $340 million allocated to enforcement will be used to continue “to establish enforcement strategies that will ensure a fair tax system, by allowing the IRS eventually to double its compliance efforts on partnerships and high-wealth returns and devote more resources to examining large corporations with balance sheet assets greater than $10 million.”
The funds will also be used to expand oversight against cybercrime and to increase use of applied data analytics in enforcement activities.
Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., probed Rettig on how the wealthy continually “skip out” on paying taxes, pointing to IRS enforcement regarding large partnerships, which he said “can abuse the system with impunity.”
