Tax-the-Rich Messaging Drives Democrats’ 2024 Election Pitch

Democrats are emphasizing the IRS’s improved enforcement efforts against wealthy tax dodgers and rolling out bills to increase taxes on the rich, ahead of an election year that will be critical to determining the contents of major tax legislation expected in 2025.

Senate Democratic committee leaders are selling the IRS funding they secured in last year’s tax-and-climate law, seeking to use hearings to show taxpayers how the money is being used for enforcement and to improve taxpayer services. Progressive lawmakers are also introducing legislation they say complements the IRS’s efforts to crack down on rich people skirting their tax obligations, ...