The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency says, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden's signature climate, health care and tax package signed into law in 2022.

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The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency announced Friday, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden’s signature climate, health care and tax package signed into law in 2022.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel traveled to Austin, Texas, to tour an IRS campus and announce the latest milestone in tax collections as Republicans warn of big future budget cuts for the tax agency if they take over the White House and Congress.

Yellen said in a speech in Austin that in 2019, the top one percent of wealthy Americans owed more than one-fifth of all unpaid taxes, “leaving ordinary Americans to shoulder the burden.”

  • @TreczoksEnglish
    9•9 days ago

    That’s a good start, but just a start. There is probably at least ten times as much…

    The question is: Will they put the tax dodgers behind bars where they belong?

    • @Viking_HippieOPEnglish
      5•9 days ago

      That’s a good start, but just a start. There is probably at least ten times as much…

      You’re absolutely right.

      The question is: Will they put the tax dodgers behind bars where they belong

      Probably not 😮‍💨