House Passes Bill to Rescind IRS Operations Funds: BGOV Tax

House Votes to Claw Back IRS Funds

Legislation to claw back more IRS supplemental funds is one step closer to becoming law after the House passed a government funding package that included the cut.

The measure (H.R. 7148), a package that includes three of the 12 annual appropriations bills, would rescind about $11.7 billion of the operations support funds the IRS received in Democrats’ 2022 tax-and-spending law. It passed by a bipartisan vote of 341-88.

The IRS originally received a total of about $80 billion in multiyear funds in the 2022 law, as Democrats sought to strengthen the agency’s customer ...