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.”

  • @Bosht
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    243 months ago

    Now put those dollars to work for the people instead of throwing it directly into the military sector.

    • @phoneymouse
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      123 months ago

      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.

      • @Bosht
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        43 months ago

        Agreed. Just keep reinvesting the money back in