IRS Is Hiring New Employees, Not Raising an Army

Aug. 18, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC

“Is it true?” one of my friends messaged. “Is the IRS really raising an army?”

That gave me a start. An army? Honestly, I was just hoping the agency would start answering the phones again.

But like all rumors, this one had started with a grain of truth.

IRS Funding

The IRS has received a green light for additional funding: The Inflation Reduction Act—now signed into law—includes roughly $80 billion for the IRS to be phased in over 10 years. A Treasury Department report from May 2021 estimated that level of additional funding would allow the agency to ...

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