In his fiscal 2025 budget proposal, President Joe Biden asked Congress to provide an unprecedented $104 billion in additional funding for the IRS on top of its $12.3 billion annual budget and the $80 billion the agency already received through Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
Worryingly, when I questioned IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel about when the IRS would stop the excessive growth of its federal budget, Werfel responded that the proposed increases are intended to become the new norm for the IRS. This is unacceptable.
At a recent hearing on the IRS’s budget, I reminded Werfel of his previous claim that the IRS would have a decade to “rebuild” with the $80 billion in IRS funding already authorized. While many rightly continue to raise questions about that significant increase in funding, which was a five times or more increase in the IRS budget, the IRS claimed it…
