IRS Seeks to Hire 3,700 Agents to Pursue Wealthy Tax Dodgers (1)

The IRS plans to hire 3,700 employees to help fuel its efforts to target large corporations and complex partnerships.

Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act set aside tens of billions of dollars for the IRS to intensify its enforcement of tax cheats. The Friday announcement followed agency news last week that it would open examinations for 75 of the largest US partnerships by the end of September.

The new positions, which will be open in more than 250 locations, will help ramp up the IRS compliance efforts against high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations, and promoters, the IRS said in a press release ...